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Penistone.

A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/pɛnɪstən/Yorkshire
  1. A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).

    countable · uncountable
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“head”) + Old English -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). No relation to penis.

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