"Tenby" meaning in English

See Tenby in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Welsh din ("fort") + bych, variant form of bychan (“small”). Doublet of Denbigh. Etymology templates: {{der|en|cy|din ("fort") + bych}} Welsh din ("fort") + bych, {{m|cy|bychan||small}} bychan (“small”), {{doublet|en|Denbigh}} Doublet of Denbigh Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tenby
  1. A coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1300). Categories (place): Places in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Places in Wales, Towns in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Towns in Wales Translations (town): Dinbych-y-pysgod [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-Tenby-en-name-goqrVxlO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Tenby meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cy",
        "3": "din (\"fort\") + bych"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh din (\"fort\") + bych",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "bychan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "small"
      },
      "expansion": "bychan (“small”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Denbigh"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Denbigh",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Welsh din (\"fort\") + bych, variant form of bychan (“small”). Doublet of Denbigh.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tenby",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Pembrokeshire, Wales",
          "orig": "en:Places in Pembrokeshire, Wales",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Wales",
          "orig": "en:Places in Wales",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Towns in Pembrokeshire, Wales",
          "orig": "en:Towns in Pembrokeshire, Wales",
          "parents": [
            "Towns",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Towns in Wales",
          "orig": "en:Towns in Wales",
          "parents": [
            "Towns",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1300)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Tenby-en-name-goqrVxlO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Pembrokeshire",
          "Pembrokeshire#English"
        ],
        [
          "Wales",
          "Wales#English"
        ],
        [
          "OS",
          "OS"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "town",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Dinbych-y-pysgod"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tenby"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cy",
        "3": "din (\"fort\") + bych"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh din (\"fort\") + bych",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "bychan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "small"
      },
      "expansion": "bychan (“small”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Denbigh"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Denbigh",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Welsh din (\"fort\") + bych, variant form of bychan (“small”). Doublet of Denbigh.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tenby",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English doublets",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms derived from Welsh",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Places in Pembrokeshire, Wales",
        "en:Places in Wales",
        "en:Towns in Pembrokeshire, Wales",
        "en:Towns in Wales"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1300)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Pembrokeshire",
          "Pembrokeshire#English"
        ],
        [
          "Wales",
          "Wales#English"
        ],
        [
          "OS",
          "OS"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Dinbych-y-pysgod"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tenby"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.