Cavendish

See also: cavendish

English

Etymology

• (English village): Enclosure of a man named Cāfna + Old English edisc; recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB).
• (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.
• (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkævəndɪʃ/

Proper noun

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

1. A surname.
2. A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
3. A number of places in Canada:
   1. A locality in Alberta.
   2. A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
   3. A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
   4. A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
4. An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
5. A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
6. A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

Derived terms

• cavendish

 

Noun

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

1. (countable) The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.

   Synonyms: Chinese banana, dwarf banana

   • 2018, Chris Fitch, Globalography: Our Interconnected World revealed in 50 Maps, page 10:

     Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.

2. (uncountable) Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”)

Further reading

• Cavendish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cavendish banana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia