Shrewsbury

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Shrewsbury

/ˈʃɹəʊzbɹi/ UK
/ˈʃɹuːzbɹi/ UK
/ˈʃɹoʊzbəɹi/ US
/ˈʃɹuzbəɹi/ US

Where it comes from

From Old English Sċrobbesburh (literally “fort in the scrubland region”), from *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh. Compare Shropshire from Sċrobbesċīr, short form of Sċrobbesbyriġ sċīr (literally “shire of Shrewsbury”).

proper noun

A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4912). League One side Shrewsbury Town have signed Norwich City central midfielder Ben Godfrey on loan until January.
A civil parish with a town council which includes the town in Shropshire, which partly replaced Shrewsbury and Atcham District when it was abolished in 2009.
A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.
A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
A hamlet in Portland parish, Jamaica.
A declining rural unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky.
A former unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; a suburb of New Orleans.
A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
A city in St. Louis County, Missouri; an inner suburb of St. Louis.
A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, which has shrunk in size since 1693.
A borough in eastern Monmouth County, New Jersey, formed in 1926 from the township.
An unincorporated community in Upper Freehold Township, in southwestern Monmouth County, New Jersey.
An estuary in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.
Three townships in Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County, Sullivan County and York County.
A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
An English earldom.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: broseley, market drayton, bishop's castle, shifnal, oswestry, church stretton, shrops, shropshire, whitchurch, newport, wellington, craven arms, badger, shire town, newcastle, atcham

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name town in Shropshire, England

한국어	슈루즈베리 syurujeuberi
日本語	シュルーズベリー
中文	什魯斯伯里 /什鲁斯伯里 Shílǔsībólǐ
हिन्दी	श्रूस्ब्री śrūsbrī
Русский	Шрусбери Šrusberi
العربية	شروزبري shruzibri
עברית	שרוסברי

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@misc{shrewsbury_2026,
  title = {Shrewsbury},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shrewsbury},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}