"Stratford-on-Avon" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: From being the location of a river ford for a roadway. From Old Welsh avon (“river”) + Old English ford (“ford”) + Old English strǣt (“street”); from Latin strata (“road”). From being a ford for a British Roman road. The ford itself has subsequently been built over, becoming Clopton Bridge. The river itself has subsequently become named River Avon. Etymology templates: {{der|en|owl|avon||river}} Old Welsh avon (“river”), {{der|en|ang|ford||ford}} Old English ford (“ford”), {{der|en|ang|strǣt||street}} Old English strǣt (“street”), {{der|en|la|strata||road}} Latin strata (“road”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Stratford-on-Avon
  1. A town in Warwickshire, England, birthplace of William Shakespeare. Often used as a byword for a particularly idyllic or historic town. Categories (place): Places in England, Places in Warwickshire, England, Towns in England, Towns in Warwickshire, England, Boroughs in England
    Sense id: en-Stratford-on-Avon-en-name-4QnqQWwQ Disambiguation of Boroughs in England: 58 42 Categories (other): Terms with Tamil translations Disambiguation of Terms with Tamil translations: 46 54
  2. A local government district of Warwickshire with its headquarters in the town. Categories (place): Districts of England, Districts of Warwickshire, England, Places in England, Places in Warwickshire, England
    Sense id: en-Stratford-on-Avon-en-name-rtoa7yHa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Tamil translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 37 63 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Tamil translations: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford Translations (Stratford-on-Avon): Стра́тфорд на Е́йвън (Strátford na Éjvǎn) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 埃文河畔斯特拉特福 (Āiwén hépàn Sītèlātèfú) (Chinese), Stratford-on-Avon (French), ストラトフォード・アポン・エイヴォン (sutoratofōdo-apon-eivon) (Japanese), 스트랫퍼드 어펀 에이번 (seuteuraetpeodeu eopeon eibeon) (Korean), Stratfordia super Avonam (Latin), استراتفورد (estrâtford) (Persian), Стра́тфорд-на-Эйво́не (Strátford-na-Ejvóne) [masculine] (Russian), Стратфорд на Ејвону (Stratford na Ejvonu) [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ஸ்துரடஃபர்டு அப்பொன்-ஏவன் (sturaṭafarṭu appoṉ-ēvaṉ) (Tamil)
Disambiguation of 'Stratford-on-Avon': 0 0
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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.