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Smiley

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈsmaɪli//

Synonym of Samoyed (a breed of dog)

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of Samoyed (a breed of dog)

proper noun

  1. 1

    A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, perhaps originally a byname for a happy, smiling person.

    At a press conference on Sunday, the mayor of Providence, Brett Smiley, was asked what could be done to stop the "uniquely American experience" of mass shootings on campuses.

  2. 2

    A placename. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

  3. 3

    A placename. A township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States, named for William C. Smiley.

  4. 4

    A placename. A city in Gonzales County, Texas, United States.

  5. 5

    A placename. An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, United States.

Forms

plural
Smileys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).