name
Selby
SEHL-bee
name
1
A town in North Yorkshire, England.
"They visited the abbey in Selby."
2
A habitational surname of Old Norse origin, also used as a unisex given name.
"Selby wrote crime novels set in Yorkshire."
Word Forms
Selbys plural
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Etymology
From Old Norse selja ("willow") and býr ("settlement, farm").