name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Standard Lemma guide
bailey
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈbeɪli/
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CMU ARPABET: B EY1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A unisex given name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A unisex given name
A female given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 7
A placename
A sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin), located in the Atlantic.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 9
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 10
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 11
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri; named for early settler John Martin Bailey.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 12
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Nash County, North Carolina.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 13
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 14
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Fannin County, Texas.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 15
The outer wall of a feudal castle.
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noun
Meaning 16
The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
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noun
Meaning 17
A prison or court of justice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester
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noun
Meaning 18
An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
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noun
Meaning 19
An apple cultivar from New York
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noun
Meaning 20
the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rampart, bulwark, wall
noun
Meaning 21
the outer courtyard of a castle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: court, courtyard
noun
Meaning 22
English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Nathan Bailey, Nathaniel Bailey
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Broader terms: lexicographer, lexicologist
noun
Meaning 23
United States singer (1918-1990)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Pearl Bailey, Pearl Mae Bailey
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Broader terms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser
History
Etymology
(English topographic surname): See bailey (“outer castle wall”)
From Old French baile (“palisade, enclosure”), from Latin bacula, plural of baculum (“stick, rod”).
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 贝利 — family or given name
- Chinese Mandarin: 貝利 /贝利 (bèilì) — family or given name
- Hebrew: ביילי (béili) — family or given name
- Finnish: ulkomuuri — outer wall of a castle
- German: Burgmauer — outer wall of a castle
- Irish: bábhún — outer wall of a castle
- Latin: ballium — outer wall of a castle
- Portuguese: paliçada — outer wall of a castle
- Sicilian: bagghiu — outer wall of a castle
- Finnish: linnanpiha — space contained by the outer wall of a castle
- German: Burghof — space contained by the outer wall of a castle
- Sicilian: bagghiu — space contained by the outer wall of a castle
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