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Ouse
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ouse -ouse
English
Etymology
From en ang Usa, probably of Romano-British en cel - origin, from en cel-pro *udso-, from en ine-pro *wed- water.Smith, A. H. (1962). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press. pp. 133–134.
Pronunciation
en /uːz/
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Proper noun
Various rivers in England.
1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems, 254:
Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plainOf spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er,Conducts the eye along his sinuous courseDelighted.
River Ouse, Yorkshire: en river co/North Yorkshire and co/East Riding of Yorkshire.
River Ouse, Sussex: en river in both co/West Sussex and co/East Sussex.
River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia.
River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.
en locality council:Suf/Central Highlands central s/Tasmania c/Australia.
Derived terms
en Great Ouse Linton-on-Ouse Little Ouse Newton-on-Ouse
References
Anagrams
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