Salopian
/səˈləʊ.pɪən/noun, adjective
Salopian is a noun meaning “A person from Shropshire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-O-P-I-A-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Salopian is Salopians.
What does Salopian mean?
noun
- 1
A person from Shropshire.
- 2
A pupil of Shrewsbury School
adjective
- 1
UKof or from Shropshire
- 2
UKof or from Shrewsbury
the Romano-Salopian pottery found at Wroxeter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Salopian?
- UK /səˈləʊ.pɪən/
Salopian has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Salopian
- Salopians plural
- more Salopian comparative
- most Salopian superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Salopian?
Salopian appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Salopian come from?
From Salop (an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman Salopesberia, from Old English Scrobbesbyrig (“Shropshire”)) + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).