Kingsburg

English

Etymology 1

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

Kingsburg

  1. A village in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Etymology 2

From King's + -burg, in honor of Mike King, a landowner.

Proper noun

Kingsburg

  1. An unincorporated community in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States.

Etymology 3

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

Kingsburg

  1. A city in Fresno County, California, United States.
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