Lichfield
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English
Etymology
From Old English Lyccid, from Common Brittonic, Letocetum, a placename meaning "greywood" + feld (“field”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lichfield (countable and uncountable, plural Lichfields)
- A placename:
- A cathedral city in Staffordshire, England.
- A local government district in Staffordshire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the city.
- A rural settlement in the Waikato, New Zealand. [1]
- (countable) A surname.
- 2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost:
- “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.
- Misspelling of Litchfield.