Kingsburg
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From king's + -burg, in honor of George III who provided the land grant to the original settlers. Doublet of Kingsburgh, Kingsbury, Kingsberry, and Conisbrough. Cf. Kingsville, Kingstown, Kingstone, Kingston, Coniston, Coniston Cold, and Conington.
Proper noun
[edit]Kingsburg
- A village in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Etymology 2
[edit]From King's + -burg, in honor of Mike King, a landowner.
Proper noun
[edit]Kingsburg
Etymology 3
[edit]Variant of Kingsburgh, from Kings + -burgh, emended from earlier Kingsbury, named for the nearby Kings River, a calque of Spanish Rio de los Santos Reyes (“River of the Holy Kings”), named in honor of the Three Wise Men of the stories of the Nativity of Jesus because of its first recorded European discovery by members of Gabriel Moraga's expedition on 6 January 1806, the day of the feast of the Epiphany.
Proper noun
[edit]Kingsburg
- A city in Fresno County, California, United States.
Synonyms
[edit]- Kingsbury, Kingsburgh (historical)
Categories:
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Villages in Nova Scotia
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Nova Scotia
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Unincorporated communities in South Dakota, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in South Dakota, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English terms derived from Spanish
- en:Cities in California, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in California, USA
- English terms interfixed with -s-
- English terms suffixed with -burg