Ash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æʃ/
- Rhymes: -æʃ
Proper noun
Ash (countable and uncountable, plural Ashes)
- (Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of oases.
- Oisc, also spelled Æsc or Ash, an Anglo-Saxon king of Kent
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near ash trees.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A diminutive of the unisex given names Ashley or Ashleigh.
- A diminutive of the female given names Ashlie, Ashlee, Ashly, or Ashanti.
- A place name:
- A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2858).
- A small village in Ash-cum-Ridley parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ6064).
- A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4720). [1]
- A hamlet in Thornfalcon parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST2822).
- A town and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, near Aldershot (OS grid ref SU8950).
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