# Ashburton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #65,701

## Definitions
1. A small town and civil parish in Teignbridge district, on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7569).
2. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
3. A river in Western Australia, which flows into the Indian Ocean.
4. A large town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
5. A river (with two branches) in Canterbury, New Zealand which flows past the town to the Pacific Ocean.
6. A territorial authority that includes the town, in Canterbury, New Zealand; in full, Ashburton District.
7. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
8. A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

## Etymology
From Old English æsc (“ashtree”) + burna (“stream”) + tūn (“town”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ashburton