Englewood is a corruption of Dutch Engelse woud (English woods or forest) & ''Engelse buurt'', or "

English Neighborhood The English Neighborhood was the colonial-era name for the towns in eastern Bergen County, New Jersey, along the Hudson Palisades between the Hudson River and the Hackensack River, particularly around its main tributary, Overpeck Creek. The region ...

", which originally referred to

Englewood, New Jersey Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of Engle ...

's status as one of the few English-speaking settlements in Dutch-speaking

New Netherland New Netherland () was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod. Settlements were established in what became the states ...

. Today, the name may refer to:

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; Canada * Englewood, British Columbia ; United States * Englewood, California *

Englewood, Colorado The City of Englewood is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 33,659 at the 2020 United States census. Englewood is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan S ...

** Englewood (RTD), transit station in Englewood, Colorado ** Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood * Englewood, Florida * Englewood (Columbus, Georgia), a neighborhood *

Englewood, Chicago Englewood is a neighborhood and community area located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is also the 68th of the 77 community areas in the city. At its peak population in 1960, over 97,000 people lived in its approxim ...

, Illinois ** West Englewood, Chicago, Illinois * Englewood, Kansas * Englewood, Missouri *

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Englewood Cliffs is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 5,342, an increase of 61 (+1.2%) from the 2010 census count of 5,281, which in turn reflected a ...

* Englewood, Ohio *

Englewood, South Dakota Englewood is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. History Englewood was first called Ten-Mile Ranch. It was originally a stagecoach stop in the late 1870s, and the name changed when it became a railr ...

* Englewood, Tennessee * Englewood, Wisconsin

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* the Englewood Railway in British Columbia

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