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Barrington

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* As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water.

* As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.

proper noun Barringtons

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).
  2. countable, uncountable A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington.
  3. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3818).
  4. countable, uncountable A small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
  5. countable, uncountable A locality in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
  6. countable, uncountable A rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  7. countable, uncountable A hamlet in the township of Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada.
  8. countable, uncountable A suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois.
  9. countable, uncountable A town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
  10. countable, uncountable A borough in Camden County, New Jersey.
  11. countable, uncountable A town in Yates County, New York.
  12. countable, uncountable A suburban residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island.
  13. countable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{barrington_2026,
  title = {Barrington},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/barrington},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}