Aylesbury

[eylz-buh-ree, -bree]

noun

1. one of an English breed of white, domestic ducks.

Aylesbury

/ -brɪ, ˈeɪlzbərɪ /

noun

1. a town in SE central England, administrative centre of Buckinghamshire. Pop: 69 021 (2001)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aylesbury¹

First recorded in 1850–55; named after Aylesbury, England

Example Sentences

The Met said that it was called to a building in Aylesbury Estate on 17 March to reports of an unresponsive woman.

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An economics teacher in Aylesbury and then Bournemouth, she was also a tutor with the Open University for 20 years.

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Masum was arrested in the early hours of 9 April in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, where he had gone to be treated for "lockjaw".

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Leslie Lemon, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, died on Friday, just 10 days after his birthday.

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Jane McCarthy, from Aylesbury, has withheld payments of about £5,000 to Buckinghamshire Council in a bid to pressure it to move its pension fund and banking away from what she calls "investments in climate destruction".

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