Somerville

English

Etymology

From Somer +‎ -ville.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)vɪl/

Proper noun

Somerville

  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. A township in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
    2. A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
    3. A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
    4. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
      • 2017 July 5, Alana Semuels, “From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'”, in The Atlantic‎[1], archived from the original on 17 August 2017:
        There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.
      • 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 98:
        While at school, he worked in […] the disgusting slush of Boston’s outer suburbs. He got accustomed to driving all day to a job site, working, and then driving the winding roads and blind curves to Somerville, only to wake up and do it again the next morning.
    5. A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
    6. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
    7. A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
    8. A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
  4. A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.
  5. (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Somerville College, Oxford.
  6. (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Somerville College Boat Club.

Derived terms

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