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Meaning of -bury | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B1
/-bɹi/

Definitions

A placename suffix indicating a fortified place.

morpheme

Examples

“Some of these hilltops – Sidbury, Quarley, Danebury and Woolbury – were later, in the sixth and fifth centuries, appropriated for the building of hillforts.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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