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Benson

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbɛn.sən//

An English habitational surname from Old English from a place in Oxfordshire.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An English habitational surname from Old English from a place in Oxfordshire.

  2. 2

    An English surname originating as a patronymic from Benedict + -son.

  3. 3

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  4. 4

    A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Benson No. 35, in south-east Saskatchewan, Canada.

  5. 5

    A hamlet within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.

  6. 6

    A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6191).

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: A city in Cochise County, Arizona.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: A village in Woodford County, Illinois.

  9. 9

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.

  10. 10

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.

  11. 11

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland.

  12. 12

    A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Swift County, Minnesota.

  13. 13

    A number of places in the United States: A township in Swift County, Minnesota.

  14. 14

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Hamilton County, New York.

  15. 15

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Johnston County, North Carolina.

  16. 16

    A number of places in the United States: A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

  17. 17

    A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.

  18. 18

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

  19. 19

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Burnett County, Wisconsin.

Etymology

Ultimately from Old English Benesingtūn.

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

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