Sydenham

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English

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Sydenham

Sydenham railway station, Belfast in 2007. There are also stations named Sydenham in London and Sydney

Etymology

From Old English sīdan, dative of sīd (“large, spacious, wide”) + hamm (“water meadow”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /sɪdənəm/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)

Proper noun

Sydenham (countable and uncountable, plural Sydenhams)

(uncountable) A placename:
1. A suburban area of Greater London, in the borough of Lewisham, borough of Bromley and borough of Southwark.
2. A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP7301). ^[1]
3. A suburb of Bridgwater, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3137).
4. A suburb of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3364).
5. A suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
6. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
7. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
8. A community of Frontenac County, Ontario.
9. Two rivers named Sydenham River in Ontario, one flowing into Lake Huron, the other into Lake St. Clair.
10. A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. ^[2]
11. A suburb of Durban, South Africa.
12. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sydenham is the 9103^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 676 individuals.

References

Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sydenham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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