Sudbury

English

Etymology

From Old English suþ (“south”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Southbury.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sʌdbəɹi/

Proper noun

Sudbury

1. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1632).
2. A suburb in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1685).
3. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741).
4. A city in northern Ontario, Canada, properly Greater Sudbury.
   • 2006 November 29, William Grimes, “The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada. When the discussion zooms in on a hot debate on raising the Franco-Ontarian flag in Sudbury, Ontario, it is hard not to feel that the topic of French in Canada has perhaps been exhausted.

5. Sudbury District, a district in northern Ontario.
6. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
7. A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

Derived terms

• Greater Sudbury
• Sudbury Hill
• Sudbury District
• sudburyite