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Bailey

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbeɪli//

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

    “I did not initiate, welcome, encourage, engage in, or learn from much less enjoy, [Adam] Bailey’s tirade. I did not base any part of any of my rulings on it, as Bailey has outlandishly, mistakenly, and defamatorily claimed,” Engoron wrote.

  2. 2

    A surname. An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.

  3. 3

    A surname. An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).

  4. 4

    A surname. An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).

  5. 5

    A unisex given name A male given name transferred from the surname.

  6. 6

    A unisex given name A female given name transferred from the surname.

  7. 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.

  8. 8

    A placename A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.

  9. 9

    A placename A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota.

  10. 10

    A placename A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

  11. 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.

  12. 12

    A placename A number of places in the United States: A town in Nash County, North Carolina.

  13. 13

    A placename A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.

  14. 14

    A placename A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Fannin County, Texas.

Etymology

(English topographic surname): See bailey (“outer castle wall”)

noun

  1. 1

    An apple cultivar from New York

Forms

plural
Baileys
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