Chadbourn

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A small town in Columbus County, in the southeastern part of the US state of North Carolina
2. A rural community located in Columbus County within the coastal plain of North Carolina, United States
3. A municipality in southeastern North Carolina known as a farming and small-business center in Columbus County

Etymology: Chadbourn is a town in Columbus County, North Carolina, and its name is a variant of Chatburn, a village in Lancashire, England. The English place name is the older of the two, and the American town carries it across the Atlantic as a transplanted name rather than a word with its own separate history. Chatburn is a village in the Ribble Valley, and the spelling "Chadbourn" shows how one place name can settle into different forms over time and in different places. Because the American town takes its name from the English village, the two share the same underlying history, and the difference between them lies only in spelling.