"Great Bridge" meaning in English

See Great Bridge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: In the West Midlands, "Great" comes from Old English grēot. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|grēot}} Old English grēot Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Great Bridge}} Great Bridge
  1. An area in Tipton, Sandwell borough, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9892). Categories (place): Places in England, Places in the West Midlands, England
    Sense id: en-Great_Bridge-en-name-Xu~0VZSP Categories (other): Neighbourhoods in the West Midlands, England, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38
  2. A community in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States, named after the Battle of Great Bridge. Categories (place): Places in Virginia, USA, Places in the United States, Villages in Virginia, USA, Villages in the United States
    Sense id: en-Great_Bridge-en-name-bAtQ6Bno

Download JSON data for Great Bridge meaning in English (3.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "grēot"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English grēot",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In the West Midlands, \"Great\" comes from Old English grēot.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Great Bridge"
      },
      "expansion": "Great Bridge",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Neighbourhoods in the West Midlands, England",
          "orig": "en:Neighbourhoods in the West Midlands, England",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in England",
          "orig": "en:Places in England",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the West Midlands, England",
          "orig": "en:Places in the West Midlands, England",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 71",
          "text": "They scaled the debris of crumbling breezeblocks […] and found a room, lit by a streetlamp, stripped back all the way to the brick, with the front wall of the building missing, facing Great Bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An area in Tipton, Sandwell borough, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9892)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Great_Bridge-en-name-Xu~0VZSP",
      "links": [
        [
          "Tipton",
          "Tipton#English"
        ],
        [
          "Sandwell",
          "Sandwell#English"
        ],
        [
          "West Midlands",
          "West Midlands#English"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England#English"
        ],
        [
          "OS",
          "OS"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Virginia, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in Virginia, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Villages in Virginia, USA",
          "orig": "en:Villages in Virginia, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Villages",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Villages in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Villages in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Villages",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A community in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States, named after the Battle of Great Bridge."
      ],
      "id": "en-Great_Bridge-en-name-bAtQ6Bno",
      "links": [
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "Chesapeake",
          "Chesapeake#English"
        ],
        [
          "Virginia",
          "Virginia#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Great Bridge"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "grēot"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English grēot",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In the West Midlands, \"Great\" comes from Old English grēot.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Great Bridge"
      },
      "expansion": "Great Bridge",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Neighbourhoods in the West Midlands, England",
        "en:Places in England",
        "en:Places in the West Midlands, England"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 71",
          "text": "They scaled the debris of crumbling breezeblocks […] and found a room, lit by a streetlamp, stripped back all the way to the brick, with the front wall of the building missing, facing Great Bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An area in Tipton, Sandwell borough, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9892)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Tipton",
          "Tipton#English"
        ],
        [
          "Sandwell",
          "Sandwell#English"
        ],
        [
          "West Midlands",
          "West Midlands#English"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England#English"
        ],
        [
          "OS",
          "OS"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Places in Virginia, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States",
        "en:Villages in Virginia, USA",
        "en:Villages in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A community in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States, named after the Battle of Great Bridge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "Chesapeake",
          "Chesapeake#English"
        ],
        [
          "Virginia",
          "Virginia#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Great Bridge"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.