Ashley

//ˈæʃli// name

name ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394). countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440). countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595). countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831). countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048). countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990). countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636). countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A number of villages and hamlets in England:; A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168). countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    A surname from Old English derived from the places in England. countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    A male given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable

    "'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'"

  9. 14
    A female given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable

    "But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine."

  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Washington County, Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley. countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana. countable, uncountable
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Elba Township, Gratiot County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
  13. 18
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley. countable, uncountable
  14. 19
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow. countable, uncountable
  15. 20
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley. countable, uncountable
  16. 21
    A number of places in the United States:; A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. countable, uncountable
  17. 22
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia; named for the local Ash family. countable, uncountable
  18. 23
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, Marathon County, Wisconsin. countable, uncountable
  19. 24
    A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England. countable, uncountable
  20. 25
    A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand. countable, uncountable

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"Ashley Davies, a volcanologist at JPL, will describe how studying volcanoes on Earth leads to a clearer understanding of how Io's volcanoes work and how best to study them from spacecraft."

Etymology

From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.

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