Sandown

English

Proper noun

Sandown

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). [1], from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.[2]
    • 2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 101:
      A ‘slum zoo’ in Sandown and a nation in decline, but here we go. What a life.
  2. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Sandown, IoW.
  3. A suburb of Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  1. ^ Parish map (Isle of Wight)
  2. ^
    1996, A.D Mills, The Place-Names of the Isle of Wight, page 92:
    'The sandy river-meadow or enclosure', from Old English sand and hamm.

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