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Meaning of Somerville | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈsʌmə(ɹ)vɪl

Definitions

  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. A township in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
  4. A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
  5. A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
  6. A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
  7. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  8. A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
  9. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
  10. A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
  11. A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
  12. A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.
  13. Ellipsis of Somerville College, Oxford.
  14. Ellipsis of Somerville College Boat Club.

Equivalents

العربية سوميرفيل

Examples

“There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.”
“While at school, he worked in […] the disgusting slush of Boston’s outer suburbs. He got accustomed to driving all day to a job site, working, and then driving the winding roads and blind curves to Somerville, only to wake up and do it again the next morning.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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