Somerville

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Somerville

  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. A township in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
    2. A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
    3. A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
    4. A city in Massachusetts.
      • 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 98:
        While at school, he worked in [] the disgusting slush of Boston’s outer suburbs. He got accustomed to driving all day to a job site, working, and then driving the winding roads and blind curves to Somerville, only to wake up and do it again the next morning.
    5. A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
    6. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
    7. A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
    8. A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
  4. A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.
  5. (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Somerville College, Oxford.
  6. (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Somerville College Boat Club.

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