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Sudbury

  • /sʌdbəɹi/ UK

Where it comes from

From Old English suþ (“south”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Southborough, Southbury, and Sudborough.

proper noun

  1. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).
  2. A suburb and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1685).
  3. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741).
  4. A city, a municipality in northern Ontario; in full, Greater Sudbury; established 2001. This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada. When the discussion zooms in on a hot debate on raising the Franco-Ontarian flag in Sudbury, Ontario, it is hard not to feel that the topic of French in Canada has perhaps been exhausted.
  5. A district in northern Ontario; in full, Sudbury District; Greater Sudbury exists as an enclave fully enclosed within the district, but administered separately.
  6. A former regional municipality of the Sudbury District, Northern Ontario, Ontario; in full, Regional Municipality of Sudbury; created in 1973, carved out of the eponymous district; that was merged into Greater Sudbury in 2001.
  7. A former city in Regional Municipality of Sudbury, Sudbury District, in Northern Ontario; established in 1883 as Sainte-Anne-des-Pins; that was merged into Greater Sudbury in 2001.
  8. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  9. A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

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"Sudbury." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sudbury. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

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

Chicago

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

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@misc{sudbury_2026,
  title = {Sudbury},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sudbury},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}