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1. Synonym of burial ground.

   Synonyms: burial ground

plural Lichfields

1. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA cathedral city in Staffordshire, England.
   2. countableuncountableA local government district of Staffordshire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the city.
   3. countableuncountableA rural settlement in Waikato, New Zealand.
2. countableA surname.

   “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.

   2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019

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   Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the "hipster effect" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.

   2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024

3. countablemisspellinguncountableMisspelling of Litchfield.