Stanhope
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
"Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky."
- 2 A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
- 3 a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat wordnet
- 4 An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
- 1 A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
- 2 A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
- 3 A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
- 4 An English habitational surname from Old English.
- 5 A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
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- 6 A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia
- 7 A locale in Canada.; A village in Quebec.
- 8 A locale in Canada.; A community in Prince Edward Island.
- 9 A locale in Canada.; A settlement in Newfoundland.
- 10 A locale in the United States.; A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
- 11 A locale in the United States.; A borough of New Jersey.
- 12 A locale in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
- 13 A locale in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Ohio.
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More examples"Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky."
Etymology
The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).
From Stanhope (“a surname”). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.
Named after Charles, the third Earl of Stanhope, the inventor of this magnifying glass design.
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