Severn
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English
Etymology
From Middle English Severne, from Old English Sæfern, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā (compare Welsh Hafren), perhaps from *samaros (“summer fallow”). Doublet of Sabrina.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛv.ə(ɹ)n/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsev.ən/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɛv.ɚn/
- Homophone: seven (non-rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)n
Proper noun
Severn
- A river of England and Wales that flows into the Bristol Channel.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XIX, page 32:
- There twice a day the Severn fills,
The salt sea-water passes by,
And hushes half the babbling Wye,
And makes a silence in the hills.
- A long river in northern Ontario which flows into Hudson Bay.
- A short river in central Ontario which flows into Lake Huron.
- A number of other rivers in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
- A township in Ontario, Canada, created in 1994 on the amalgamation of several smaller communities.
- A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
- A small town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States.
- A surname.
Derived terms
Terms derived from Severn
Translations
the river
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Sabrina, from Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā.
Proper noun
Severn m