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Gateshead
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English
Metropolitan Borough of +
Etymology
From en enm Gatesheved (c. 1190), from en ang *Gāteshēafod, from ang gāt goat + ang hēafod head. First mentioned by Bede in Latin in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People as la ad caput caprae at the goat's head, meaning a headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats. Both Latin and English names may be calques of a Brythonic predecessor formed from cel-bry-pro *gaβr, from cel-pro *gabros goat, and might have been the Romano-British fort of la Gabrosentum.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡeɪtsˌhɛd/
Proper noun
en town co/Tyne and Wear in north-east cc/England, found upon the southern bank of the Tyne OS grid ref NZ2562.
1830, John Yelloly, Sequel to a Paper on the Tendency to Calculous Diseases, and on the Concretions to Which Such Diseases Give Rise, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 120
Of this number, 64 belonged to the above district, including Newcastle, with the addition of Gateshead, which lies on the opposite bank of the Tyne, in the county of Durham; and these afforded 2.13 cases per annum, which, as the population was 213,000, gave one case for every 100,000 inhabitants.
en metropolitan borough in co/Tyne and Wear formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the town. Borough map (Tyne & Wear)
en suburb city/Newcastle in the city:Pref/Lake Macquarie s/New South Wales c/Australia, named after the town in England.
Translations
town in the county of Tyne and Wear
Greek: el Γκέητσχεντ
See also
en Gatehead
References
Anagrams
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en terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs