normandy
IPA: nˈɔrmʌndi
Root Word: Normandy
noun
- An administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.
- A number of other places:
- A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9251).
- A small settlement on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, England (OS grid ref SV9211)
- In the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, named after the Norman family.
- A city in Saint Louis County, Missouri.
- A neighbourhood in north-east Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- A town in Bedford County, Tennessee.
- A census-designated place in Maverick County, Texas.
- Ellipsis of Duchy of Normandy. [A country, a duchy in Europe, now only composed of the Channel Islands in the English Channel; a crown possession of the Monarch of England, since the Conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy; bureaucratically, it is administered by the in the United Kingdom]
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