Ashley

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Ashley

  • /ˈæʃli/
  • [ˈæʃlɪi̯]

Rhymes with -æʃli

Where it comes from

From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.

proper noun Ashleys · Ashlee · Ashleigh · Ashlie · Ashly

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
  2. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
  3. countable, uncountable A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304).
  4. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394).
  5. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440).
  6. countable, uncountable A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595).
  7. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831).
  8. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048).
  9. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990).
  10. countable, uncountable A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636).
  11. countable, uncountable A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168).
  12. countable, uncountable A surname from Old English derived from the places in England.
  13. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname. 'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'
  14. countable, uncountable A female given name transferred from the surname. But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying

    Similar: Ash

  15. countable, uncountable A minor city in Washington County, Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
  16. countable, uncountable A town in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
  17. countable, uncountable A village in Elba Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
  18. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
  19. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
  20. countable, uncountable A village in Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
  21. countable, uncountable A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
  22. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia; named for the local Ash family.
  23. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
  24. countable, uncountable A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
  25. countable, uncountable A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: koch, cooper, she, mosher, past, happiness, ashlee, ashleigh, connor, montague, montagu, bonheur, grove, glade, meadow, clearing

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日本語アシュリー Ashurī
中文阿什利 Āshílì
РусскийЭ́шли Éšli

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@misc{ashley_2026,
  title = {Ashley},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ashley},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}