Banbury

== English == === Etymology === From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbænbɹi/ Hyphenation: Ban‧bu‧ry === Proper noun === Banbury A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540). ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === Banbury (countable and uncountable, plural Banburies) A Banbury cake. (historical) A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese. (historical) A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II. ==== Derived terms ==== Banburismus === References === === Anagrams === Burnaby