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Somerville
- A Scottish surname.
- A township in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
- A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
- A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
- A city in Massachusetts.
2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 98:While at school, he worked in […] the disgusting slush of Boston’s outer suburbs. He got accustomed to driving all day to a job site, working, and then driving the winding roads and blind curves to Somerville, only to wake up and do it again the next morning.
- A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
- A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
- A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
- A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.
- (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Somerville College, Oxford.
- (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Somerville College Boat Club.
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