Banbury

From Old English Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, banna (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbænbɹi/
• Hyphenation: Ban‧bu‧ry

Banbury

1. A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540). [1]

Banbury (countable and uncountable, plural Banburies)

1. A Banbury cake.
2. (historical) A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
3. (historical) A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.

• Banburismus

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