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Wentworth

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From either the Old English byname Wintra, or Old English winter (“winter”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

proper noun Wentworths

  1. countable, uncountable A village in Newton County, Missouri.
  2. countable, uncountable A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
  3. countable, uncountable A town, the county seat of Rockingham County, North Carolina.
  4. countable, uncountable A village in Lake County, South Dakota.
  5. countable, uncountable A community in south-west Calgary, Alberta.
  6. countable, uncountable A rural community of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
  7. countable, uncountable A township municipality in the Laurentides, Quebec.
  8. countable, uncountable A small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4878).
  9. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3898).
  10. countable, uncountable A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  11. countable, uncountable A town in Wentworth Shire, south-west New South Wales, Australia, on the border with Victoria.
  12. countable, uncountable An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  13. countable, uncountable A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  14. countable, uncountable The Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England.
  15. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: woodhouse, hamilton, gardner, coolidge, clink, prison, jail, gaol, penitentiary, slammer, lockup, bastille, calaboose, hoosegow, pen, cooler

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"Wentworth." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/wentworth. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

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

Chicago

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

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@misc{wentworth_2026,
  title = {Wentworth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wentworth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}