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Penryn.

A town and civil parish with a town council in southern Cornwall, England, to the north of Falmouth (OS grid ref SW7834).

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Meaning & usage

name/pɛnˈɹɪn/
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in southern Cornwall, England, to the north of Falmouth (OS grid ref SW7834).

  2. A census-designated place in Placer County, California, United States, named after Penrhyn in Wales, but with a deliberate change in spelling.

Where this word comes from

From Cornish Pennrynn, meaning "promontory".

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.