stanhope

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/ˈstæ.nəp/

noun

A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.

Meanings

stanhope1

nounstanhope (plural stanhopes)

plural stanhopes

  1. A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.

    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.

    1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

stanhope2

nounstanhope (plural stanhopes)

plural stanhopes

  1. A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
  2. An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron

Stanhope3

proper noun
  1. A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
  2. A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
  3. An English habitational surname from Old English.
  4. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
  5. A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  6. A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia.
  7. A locale in Canada.
  8. A locale in the United States.
    1. A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.

Origin

stanhope · noun

From Stanhope (“a surname”). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.

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stanhope · noun

Named after Charles, the third Earl of Stanhope, the inventor of this magnifying glass design.

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Stanhope · proper noun

  1. Old Englishstan“stone”
  2. EnglishStanhope

The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).

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APA

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Chicago

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