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Somerville

  • /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)vɪl/

Where it comes from

Perhaps from Somer + -ville.

proper noun

  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. A township in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne.
  3. A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
  4. A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
  5. A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
  6. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.
  7. A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
  8. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
  9. A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
  10. A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
  11. A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.
  12. abbreviation, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of Somerville College, Oxford.
  13. abbreviation, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of Somerville College Boat Club

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: howorth, sommerville, somerset, scotter, summerville, medford, scotti, silcott, scofield, somerby, saville, scotten, selkirk, scotton, somers, scotchman

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MLA

"Somerville." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/somerville. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Somerville. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/somerville

Chicago

"Somerville." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/somerville.

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@misc{somerville_2026,
  title = {Somerville},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/somerville},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}