Banbury
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, banna (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbænbɹi/
- Hyphenation: Ban‧bu‧ry
Proper noun edit
Banbury
- A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540). [1]
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
Banbury (countable and uncountable, plural Banburies)
- A Banbury cake.
- (historical) A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
- (historical) A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.