# Sherborne

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #62,507

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in northwestern Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST6316).
3. A village and civil parish with a brook of the same name in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1714).
4. A hamlet in Litton parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5855).

## Etymology
From Old English Sċīraburna, equivalent to scīr (“bright, clear”) + burna (“stream”).

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