Surrey

See also: surrey

English

Etymology

From Old English Sūþrigē, Sūþrigēa (southern region), from sūþerne (southern) +‎ -gē (district, region).

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Surrey

  1. An inland county of South East England, bordered clockwise by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire.
  2. The easternmost of the three historical counties of Jamaica, bordered by the county of Middlesex in the west; named after the English county.
  3. A city in British Columbia, Canada, near Vancouver.
    • 2000 June 28, Tom Yeung, “Using his death?”, in Xtra Magazine[1], archived from the original on 20 April 2024:
      Shortly after Surrey high school student Hamed Nastoh (called a “faggot” by classmates) killed himself by jumping off a bridge, James Chamberlain wrote a letter to the editor of a small newspaper called the Peace Arch News.
  4. A township in Clare County, Michigan, United States.
  5. A city in Ward County, North Dakota, United States.

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