Meaning of Ashley | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A number of villages and hamlets in England:
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2. A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
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3. A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
   countable, uncountable
4. A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304).
   countable, uncountable
5. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394).
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6. A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440).
   countable, uncountable
7. A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595).
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8. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831).
   countable, uncountable
9. A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048).
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10. A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990).
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11. A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636).
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12. A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168).
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13. A surname from Old English derived from the places in England.
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14. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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15. A female given name transferred from the surname.
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16. A number of places in the United States:
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17. A minor city in Washington County, Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
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18. A town in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
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19. A village in Elba Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
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20. A census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
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21. A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
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22. A village in Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
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23. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
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24. An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia; named for the local Ash family.
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25. An unincorporated community in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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26. A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
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27. A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Equivalents

Examples

“'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'”

“In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it.”

“But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.”

“I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.”

“Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.””

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