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Stroud

Stroud

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A market town in Gloucestershire, England, and towns with the same name in other countries
  • proper noun
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  • He went to the Sac and Fox Indian Agency school in Stroud, OK, but dropped out.

He had an inkling that some guy in Stroud was an informant.

Examples

  • He had an inkling that some guy in Stroud was an informant.

    Dodge Woodall

  • The 11 a.m. Gloucester session on Mondays is followed by one that evening in Stroud, and another in Lydney on Thursday afternoons.

    Academic text (2008)

  • DECLAN: Oh, yes, the Stroud place.

    I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

  • Tim Stroud wrote:

    Blog text (31)

  • A course on Chinese art made me more interested in finding out about these places. The other thing it's done is that I had a friend who works in a school in Stroud, and they had a school trip to India for three weeks. They were a bit short and said, 'Do you want to go?' I thought, I've never traveled much.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Matarasso, F. 1997. Use or Ornament? The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts. Stroud, England: Comedia.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The first riding lawn mower was created and used in 1827 in Thrups, just outside of Stroud in Gloucestershire.

    Blog text (19)

  • Employee Alexander Wright, 27, was alone in the 12.6ft-deep unsupported trial pit when it caved in at a development site in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in September 2008, and died of traumatic asphyxia.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Dr. William Brinton is President, Dr. Mary Droffner is Director of Microbiology, and Eric Evans is Laboratory Director at Woods End Research Laboratory, Inc. in Mt. Vernon, Maine. Richard Brinton is Director of the Woods End UK, Stroud, England office.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Billy and Alma share their humble beginnings in Stroud, where they met in school.

Surface Forms

Stroud main

Etymology

Stroud as a place name comes from the old English word strod, meaning 'marshy land' or 'brushwood', so the town was named for the wet, shrubby land around it.