Meaning of Clarence | Babel Free

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1. A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
2. A ducal title which has been traditionally awarded to junior members of the English and British royal families
3. An English surname.
4. A male given name transferred from the surname.
5. A placename given to towns in countries settled by the British.
6. A place in Australia:
7. A locality in the City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.
8. A local government area in the Greater Hobart area of south-east Tasmania, Australia, named after the Duke of Clarence and a ship with that name; in full, the City of Clarence.
9. A settlement in north Canterbury, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Clarence River.
10. A place in Canada:
11. A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
12. A community and former township in the city of Clarence-Rockland, eastern Ontario.
13. A number of places in the United States:
14. An unincorporated community in Button Township, Ford County, Illinois.
15. A city in Cedar County, Iowa.
16. A township in Barton County, Kansas.
17. A village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
18. A township in Calhoun County, Michigan.
19. A minor city in Shelby County, Missouri.
20. A town and census-designated place therein, in Erie County, New York.
21. A census-designated place in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
22. A ghost town in the town of Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin.
23. A name given to several rivers, including one in France and others in countries settled by the British.
24. A river in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, a tributary of the Lys.
25. A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which discharges into the Coral Sea, named after the Duke of Clarence,
26. A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Clarence.

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Examples

“Warwick. Richard, I will create⟳ thee Duke of Gloucester; And George, of Clarence; Warwick, as ourself, Shall do and undo⟳ as him pleaseth best. Richard. Let⟳ me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester, For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.”

“There is one of the novels of Miss⟳ Edgeworth - we forget⟳ which - in which a gentleman of the name⟳ of Harvey figures as a hero. Harvey! Only fancy John, Peter, or William Harvey as the hero of a novel! But Miss⟳ Edgeworth was too well acquaintanced with the philosophy of names to commit such a blunder: she made the individual Clarence Harvey, and the name⟳ has never to this day been objected to even among the female teens.”

“Got rather a silly name⟳. Like⟳ a hotel. You know⟳, the Royal Clarence. That's his name⟳. Clarence."”

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