Churchillとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɜːɹt͡ʃɪl/

固有名詞

Churchill

1. Any of several placenames, derived from church and hill.
   1. A suburb of the city of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
   2. A town in the City of Latrobe, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
   3. A place in Canada:
      1. A town in Manitoba, on the coast of Hudson Bay.
      2. A community in the township of Lot 65, Prince Edward Island.
      3. A community in the town of Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario.
      4. A community in the town of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario.
   4. A place in England:
      1. A hamlet in All Saints parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2901).
      2. A hamlet in East Down parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5940).
      3. A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP2824).
      4. A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4459).
      5. A village in Churchill and Blakedown parish, Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8879).
      6. A village and civil parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, Wychavon district, Worcestershire; in full, Churchill-in-Oswaldslow (OS grid ref SO9253).
   5. A place in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois.
      2. A neighborhood in the city of Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts.
      3. An unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Minnesota.
      4. An unincorporated community in Renville County, Minnesota.
      5. A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Trumbull County, Ohio.
      6. A borough of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
   6. A village in County Donegal, Ireland, also known as Church Hill or Churchhill.
2. A habitational surname from Old English from any of these places.
   1. Winston Churchill (English statesman, soldier and author, who served as the British prime minister during World War II; particularly as a proponent of the British Empire, powerful orator, or symbol of dogged and successful perseverance).
      • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II:

        The British ruling class are fighting against Hitler, whom they have always regarded and whom some of them still regard as their protector against Bolshevism. That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter, pull their punches, do the wrong thing. Until the Churchill Government called some sort of halt to the process, they have done the wrong thing with an unerring instinct ever since 1931.

3. (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Churchill College, Cambridge.
4. A cocktail made with Scotch, vermouth, a citrus liqueur, and lime juice.

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