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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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A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
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A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
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A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
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An English habitational surname from Old English.
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A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
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A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia.
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A locale in Canada.
A village in Quebec.
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A locale in Canada.
A community in Prince Edward Island.
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A locale in Canada.
A settlement in Newfoundland.
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A locale in the United States.
A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
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A locale in the United States.
A borough of New Jersey.
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A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
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A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
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A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
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A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
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An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
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a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat
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Broader terms: carriage, equipage, rig
History
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.
