Churchill

English

Etymology

From church +‎ hill.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɜːɹt͡ʃɪl/

Proper noun

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 Latrobe Valley district, Victoria, Australia.
   3. A town in Manitoba, Canada, on the coast of Hudson Bay.
   4. A community in the township of Lot 65, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
   5. A community in the town of Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
   6. A community in the town of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
   7. A hamlet in All Saints parish, East Devon district, Devon, England.
   8. A hamlet near the village of East Down, North Devon district, Devon, England.
   9. A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2824).
   10. A village and civil parish in North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4459).
   11. A village in Churchill and Blakedown parish, Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8879).
   12. A village in the hundred of Oswaldslow, Wychavon district, Worcestershire; in full, Churchill-in-Oswaldslow (OS grid ref SO9253).
   13. An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
   14. A neighborhood in the city of Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
   15. A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States.
   16. A borough of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
   17. An unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States.
   18. An unincorporated community in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.
   19. 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.
3. 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.

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

Derived terms

• Churchill and Blakedown
• Churchill County

Translations

placename or surname

• Arabic: تْشَرْشِل m (tšaršil)
• Armenian: Չերչիլ (Čʻerčʻil)
• Azerbaijani: Çörçil, Çörçill
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丘吉爾／丘吉尔 (zh) (Qiūjí'ěr), 邱吉爾／邱吉尔 (zh) (Qiūjí'ěr)

• Greek: Τσώρτσιλ (el) (Tsórtsil)
• Hebrew: צ׳רצ׳יל
• Hindi: चर्चिल (carcil)
• Japanese: チャーチル (Chāchiru)
• Korean: 처칠 (Cheochil)
• Marathi: चर्चिल (carcil)
• Portuguese: Churchill
• Romanian: Churchill (ro)
• Russian: Че́рчилль (ru) (Čérčillʹ)
• Telugu: చర్చిల్ (carcil)
• Thai: เชอร์ชิลล์ (cher-chin)
• Turkish: Çörçil