Definition of "Shrewsbury"

A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England.  examples

A civil parish with a town council which includes the town in Shropshire, which partly replaced Shrewsbury and Atcham District when it was abolished in 2009.  examples

A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.  examples

A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.  examples

A hamlet in Portland parish, Jamaica.  examples

A number of places in the United States:

1. A declining rural unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky.  examples

2. A former unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; suburb of New Orleans.  examples

3. A sizable town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.  examples

4. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri; inner suburb of St. Louis.  examples

5. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, which has shrunk in size since 1693.  examples

6. A borough in eastern Monmouth County, New Jersey, formed in 1926 from the township.  examples

7. An unincorporated community in Upper Freehold Township, in southwestern Monmouth County, New Jersey.  examples

8. A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.  examples

9. Three townships in Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County, Sullivan County and York County.  examples

10. A town in Rutland County, Vermont.  examples

11. A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.  examples

An English earldom.  examples