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Hungerford

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From Old English hungor (“hunger, famine”) + ford (“ford”), a name which probably denoted an unproductive or barren land.

proper noun Hungerfords

  1. countable, uncountable A town and civil parish with a town council in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3368).
  2. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Waltham St Lawrence parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU8274).
  3. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Hyde parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).
  4. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Munslow parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO5389).
  5. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Old Cleeve parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST0440).
  6. countable, uncountable A settlement in Tweed municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
  7. countable, uncountable A township in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States.
  8. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Wharton County, Texas, United States, named after Daniel E. Hungerford.
  9. countable, uncountable A locality situated on the New South Wales-Queensland border, located in the Shire of Bulloo in south-western Queensland and the Bourke council area in north-western New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Hungerford.
  10. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{hungerford_2026,
  title = {Hungerford},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hungerford},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}