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Bedford

  • /ˈbɛdfə(ɹ)d/ UK

Where it comes from

From Middle English Bedforde, Bedeford, from Old English Bedaford, Bedanford, equivalent to Bede's + ford.

The civil parish is named after John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710 - 1771). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.

proper noun Bedfords

  1. countable, uncountable A market town, the county town of Bedfordshire, England.
  2. countable, uncountable A local government district with borough status in Bedfordshire, England.
  3. countable, uncountable A suburb of Leigh, Wigan borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ6799).
  4. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana.
  5. countable, uncountable A small city, the county seat of Taylor County, Iowa.
  6. countable, uncountable A small city, the county seat of Trimble County, Kentucky.
  7. countable, uncountable A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  8. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Livingston County, Missouri.
  9. countable, uncountable A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
  10. countable, uncountable A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Westchester County, New York.
  11. countable, uncountable A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
  12. countable, uncountable A borough, the county seat of Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
  13. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Tennessee.
  14. countable, uncountable A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
  15. countable, uncountable A town, the county seat of Bedford County, Virginia.
  16. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Wyoming.
  17. countable, uncountable A number of townships in the United States, listed under Bedford Township.
  18. countable, uncountable A district of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  19. countable, uncountable A civil parish of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
  20. countable, uncountable A city and township in Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
  21. countable, uncountable A town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
  22. countable, uncountable A suburb of Perth in the City of Bayswater, Western Australia, Australia; named after Frederick Bedford.
  23. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Bedford Township
  24. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Bedford County
  25. countable, uncountable An English dukedom.
  26. countable, uncountable A surname.

noun Bedfords

  1. A truck, van, and bus and coach chassis formerly manufactured by the Bedford company, a subsidiary company of Vauxhall Motors. New Zealand Railways Road Services used to operate a large fleet of Bedfords.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: ocean, oceanographic, oceanography, forrest, grenville, oceans, stuyvesant, bedfordshire, municipality, borough, township, settlement, locality, town, suburb, community

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@misc{bedford_2026,
  title = {Bedford},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bedford},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}