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Crawley

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkɹɔːli//

A place in England: A large town and borough in West Sussex.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A place in England: A large town and borough in West Sussex.

  2. 2

    A place in England: A hamlet in Membury parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2607).

  3. 3

    A place in England: A village and civil parish in Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4234).

  4. 4

    A place in England: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP3412).

  5. 5

    An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, named after Crawley, West Sussex.

  6. 6

    A western suburb of the City of Perth, Western Australia, taken from the surname.

  7. 7

    A surname.

Etymology

From Old English crāwe (“crow”), genitive plural, crāwan + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

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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).