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Reading
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reading
English
<dab>
+, Berkshire
Etymology
From en ang Rēadingas, the name of a tribe or clan of early Anglo-Saxon England whose capital was at Reading. Not related to en reading.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɹɛdɪŋ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Reading.wav Southern England
en ɛdɪŋ 2
en redding
Proper noun
en.
en large town co/Berkshire cc/England.
en unitary authority/and/borough (Reading Borough Council) in co/Berkshire. Borough map (Berkshire)
en number of places c/USA:
en minor city co/Lyon County s/Kansas.
en town co/Middlesex County s/Massachusetts. TopoZone: Reading, Massachusetts
en Nick Stoico Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns w:Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/metro/newton-ma-generational-tobacco-ban/ 2025-01-22 Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20260609112223/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/metro/newton-ma-generational-tobacco-ban/ 9 June 2026
en city/and/twp co/Hillsdale County s/Michigan.
en ucomm co/Nobles County s/Minnesota.
en ghost town co/Pike County s/Missouri.
en town co/Schuyler County s/New York.
en city co/Hamilton County s/Ohio.
en ucomm co/Columbiana County s/Ohio.
en city/county seat co/Berks County s/Pennsylvania, named after Reading in Berkshire, England. Topozone: Reading, Pennsylvania
en Sam Janesch Meet Lloyd Smucker: Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record w:Lancaster Online https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/meet-lloyd-smucker-amish-born-congressman-seeking-a-second-term-on-tax-cuts-and-conservative/article_af30edb0-d3e1-11e8-ad23-7f83602bfde8.html 2018-10-21 His district — which covers all but seven eastern Lancaster County municipalities along with Reading in Berks County and parts of western Chester County — was reconfigured to to drop Berks and Chester while expanding to all of Lancaster County and adding southern York County. https://web.archive.org/web/20220904160102/https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/meet-lloyd-smucker-amish-born-congressman-seeking-a-second-term-on-tax-cuts-and-conservative/article_af30edb0-d3e1-11e8-ad23-7f83602bfde8.html
en town co/Windsor County s/Vermont.
en A number of other <<townships>>, listed under Reading Township.
en small town par/Saint James c/Jamaica.
Derived terms
en North Reading
en Port Reading
Translations
the town
Bulgarian: bg Рединг
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 雷丁 Léidīng
Danish: da Reading
Dutch: nl Reading
Esperanto: eo Reading
French: fr Reading
German: de Reading
Greek: el Ρέντινγκ n
Macedonian: mk Рединг m
Polish: pl Reading n
Telugu: te రెడ్డిఙ్
References
Anagrams
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en heteronyms reading