"Whitby" meaning in English

See Whitby in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈwɪtbi/, /ˈʍɪtbi/ Forms: Whitbys [plural]
Etymology: From Old Norse hvítr býr (“white town”). Equivalent to white + -by. Etymology templates: {{der|en|non|hvítr býr||white town}} Old Norse hvítr býr (“white town”), {{suffix|en|white|by}} white + -by Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Whitby (countable and uncountable, plural Whitbys)
  1. A placename:
    A town, seaport, and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref NZ8911).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Civil parishes of England, Places in England, Places in North Yorkshire, England, Towns in England, Towns in North Yorkshire, England
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-p0BhUhg-
  2. A placename:
    A town in the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Ontario, Towns in Canada, Towns in Ontario
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-ZwTxlEU1
  3. A placename:
    An unincorporated community and coal town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in West Virginia, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-x3nVnnX4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -by, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 2 56 8 1 2 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -by: 28 6 55 7 1 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 3 52 9 3 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 2 55 9 2 3
  4. A placename:
    A suburb of Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in New Zealand, Suburbs in New Zealand
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-S8fL07nA
  5. A placename:
    A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Australia, Places in Perth, Places in Western Australia, Suburbs in Western Australia
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-EcBiHL4K
  6. (countable) A habitational surname from Old Norse. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-xMgiXQXH Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Whidbee [surname], Whidby [surname] Related terms: Whitby Tourist Information

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.