A place name used for various cities and neighborhoods in the United States. It typically refers to areas originally characterized by English settlement or wooded areas.
Compound of 'English' + 'wood'. Many American place names combined ethnic or national identifiers with geographical features, reflecting settlement patterns and landscape descriptions from the colonial period.
Englewood represents the American tradition of combining Old World heritage with New World geography in place names—there are dozens of Englewoods across the US, each telling the story of English-speaking settlers encountering forested landscapes.
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