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What does Whitby mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Whitby? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A town and seaport in North Yorkshire, England.
  2. A habitational surname​.
  3. Any of a number of other places.
Name
  1. A male given name of English and Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The white town.
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His body was later taken to Whitby abbey, where he was venerated as a saint.
Scholarly reactions to the Latinity of the Whitby text are symptomatic of this state of affairs.
It was suggested that up to 65,000 passengers could be using the railway if the line ran from Pickering to Whitby.
One example of this is in his sermon on St. Hilda, the seventh-century abbess who ruled over a double monastery of men and women at Whitby.
The sun crept over the horizon, spreading radiant golden light across the rolling moorland that surrounded Whitby.
The calling to a hermit's life became strong again and in 1989, Frances moved back to Whitby and set up her second hermitage.

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