Quorn

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.
• village/and/civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood (district) Leicestershire (county) England (constituent country) .
• town South Australia (state).
• A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.

Origin

• Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn + dun. The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.