Meaning of Stanhope | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
2. A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
3. A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
4. A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
5. An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
6. A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
7. An English habitational surname from Old English.
8. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
9. A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia
10. A locale in Canada.
11. A village in Quebec.
12. A community in Prince Edward Island.
13. A settlement in Newfoundland.
14. A locale in the United States.
15. A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
16. A borough of New Jersey.
17. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
18. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Equivalents

Examples

“Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.”

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