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Abbey

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.

  3. 3

    A British surname.

  4. 4

    Westminster Abbey.

  5. 5

    The precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.

  6. 6

    A place name: A hamlet in Dunkeswell parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, probably named for the local abbey (OS grid ref ST1410).

  7. 7

    A place name: A small village south-east of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland (Irish grid ref M 5043).

  8. 8

    A place name: A village west of Portumna, County Galway (Irish grid ref M 7305).

  9. 9

    A place name: A village in the Rural Municipality of Miry Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after a farm in Ireland.

  10. 10

    A place name: A suburb of Busselton, Western Australia, named after landholder D. Abbey.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).