Westbrook

English

Etymology

From the Old English words for "west brook".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɛstbɹʊk/

Proper noun

Westbrook

  1. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut.
    2. A city in Cumberland County, Maine.
      • 2016 August 26, Tal Kopan and Theodore Schleifer, “Target of explicit LePage voicemail denies calling him a racist”, in CNN[1]:
        “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald.
    3. A minor city in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.
    4. A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
    5. A minor city in Mitchell County, Texas.
  2. A number of places in England:
    1. A hamlet in Boxford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4271).
    2. A suburb in Burtonwood and Westbrook parish and Great Sankey parish, Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5790).
    3. A hamlet in Clifford parish, western Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO2843).
    4. A western suburb of Margate, Thanet borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR3370).
    5. A hamlet in Bromham parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9565).
  3. A coastal village in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
  4. A rural town in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
  5. A suburb of Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
  6. A habitational surname from Old English.