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Beverly en · PROPN

Etymology

A variant spelling of Beverley.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname. ▸ A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1930s to the 1950s in the U.S., partly because of its association with Beverly Hills (where the stars live).
    • Mama had chosen the name Lark. - - - Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk. 1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, →ISBN, page 2:
    • Everybody in Washington's social and diplomatic circles admired the beautiful Beverly Calhoun. 1904, George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly of Graustark, Kissinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 6:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname. ▸ A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • Having a name some people thought of as feminine had turned Beverly Lamartine to building up his muscles in his youth, and they still bulged, hard as ingots in some places, now lost in others. 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love medicine, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 74:
  4. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Elbert County, Georgia, United States.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ A city in Lincoln County, Kansas, United States.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
  7. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
  8. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
  9. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Hitchcock County, Nebraska, United States.
  10. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ A city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
  11. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ A village in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
  12. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington, United States.
  13. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ A town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
  14. (countable, uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name: ▸ A former town, a district of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Forms

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Deriveds

Beverly Farms · Beverly Hills