"Doncaster" meaning in English

See Doncaster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈdɒnkæstəɹ/ [UK], /ˈdɒnkɑːstə/ [General-Australian] Forms: Doncasters [plural]
Etymology: The Romano-British name was Latin Dānum, from the common Celtic river name Proto-Celtic *Dānu << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, + the Old English suffix ceaster (“town”), found in many placenames. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|Dānum}} Latin Dānum, {{der|en|cel|-}} Celtic, {{der|en|cel-pro|*Dānu}} Proto-Celtic *Dānu, {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰenh₂-}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, {{der|en|ang|-}} Old English Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~|s}} Doncaster (countable and uncountable, plural Doncasters)
  1. A city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Cities in England, Cities in South Yorkshire, England, Districts of South Yorkshire, England, Places in England, Places in South Yorkshire, England Translations (city in Yorkshire): 唐克斯特 (Tángkèsītè) (Chinese Mandarin), Dānum [neuter] (Latin)
    Sense id: en-Doncaster-en-name-AFITUJLz Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 39 4 38 9 4 6 Disambiguation of 'city in Yorkshire': 50 6 15 12 4 13
  2. A Mohawk Native Reserve in the Laurentides region, Quebec, Canada. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Quebec, Canada
    Sense id: en-Doncaster-en-name-EZnIVMpH
  3. An unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Maryland, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Maryland, USA
    Sense id: en-Doncaster-en-name-io9DAjJl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 6 44 10 5 16 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 39 4 38 9 4 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 19 9 44 14 5 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 6 49 13 6 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 25 6 46 9 5 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 20 9 34 11 5 20
  4. An unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Maryland, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Maryland, USA
    Sense id: en-Doncaster-en-name-97K~zUc3
  5. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Australia, Places in Melbourne, Places in Victoria, Australia, Suburbs in Victoria, Australia
    Sense id: en-Doncaster-en-name-JMGz0gPZ
  6. A habitational surname from Old English. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Doncaster-en-name-zLJicHqr Categories (other): English surnames

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.