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Woodrow

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈwʊd.rəʊ//
  • United States//ˈwʊd.roʊ//

A topographic surname from Middle English for a dweller in a row of houses near a wood.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A topographic surname from Middle English for a dweller in a row of houses near a wood.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname, given in the 1910s in honor of President Woodrow Wilson.

Etymology

From wood + row.

Forms

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

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