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Fairfield

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From Old English fæġer (“beautiful, fair”) + feld (“field”), equivalent to fair + field.

proper noun Fairfields

  1. countable, uncountable A local government area in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; in full, Fairfield City Council.
  2. countable, uncountable A suburb of Sydney in the Cumberland council area and the Fairfield council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. countable, uncountable A suburb in north-east Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  4. countable, uncountable An eastern suburb of Buxton, High Peak district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK0673).
  5. countable, uncountable A suburb in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ4119).
  6. countable, uncountable A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD8211).
  7. countable, uncountable A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9097).
  8. countable, uncountable A village in Belbroughton parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO9475).
  9. countable, uncountable A suburb of Evesham, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0342).
  10. countable, uncountable A settlement next to Wolverley in Wolverley and Cookley parish, Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8279).
  11. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Solano County, California. The cities of Davis, Vacaville, and Fairfield also bans the sale and use of all fireworks.
  12. countable, uncountable A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  13. countable, uncountable A small city, the county seat of Camas County, Idaho.
  14. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Wayne County, Illinois.
  15. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Iowa.
  16. countable, uncountable A town in Somerset County, Maine.
  17. countable, uncountable A township in Essex County, New Jersey.
  18. countable, uncountable A borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
  19. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Freestone County, Texas.
  20. countable, uncountable A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Fairfield Township.
  21. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: whitefield, highfields, holwell, wingfield, willington, hatfield, whitfield, ford, woolston, hinton, milford, whitley, townsend, shipley, northfield, newington

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@misc{fairfield_2026,
  title = {Fairfield},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fairfield},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}