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Cary¹

Rhymes with -ɛəɹi

proper noun

  1. A surname, a less common spelling of Carey.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surnames. "You'll laugh when I tell you my name. All I can say is, nobody consulted me." "Why, what's your name?" Laughing now as he stepped past her into the hall. "Cary," he told her. "After the actor. Only I've never managed to be quite so suave."
  3. A diminutive of the female given name Caroline. "My sister gave it me,—my only sister, Cary. Would that your aunt Caroline had lived to see her niece!"
  4. A village in Algonquin Township, McHenry County and Cuba Township, Lake County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Putnam County, Indiana.
  6. A ghost town in Harrison Township, Miami County, Indiana.
  7. An unorganised township in Aroostook County, Maine.
  8. A town in Sharkey County, Mississippi.
  9. A town in Wake County, Chatham County and Durham County, North Carolina.
  10. A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
  11. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

cary²

verb caries · carying · caried

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of carry That firſt, and higheſt Sphere, / That mooues, and is not moou’d againe / Of any other heauen, that mooues one whit: / The which with his Careare, / And ſwifteſt courſe doth turne away / The loweſt heauens, and caries after it: / An order doth admit, / And doth maintaine, not erring in the leſt: / F

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Closest in meaning: carrie, kari, carrey, qari, curry, carey, care, crarey, kary, carrier, caley, caraway, carriere, cayer, carney, cearley

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@misc{cary_2026,
  title = {cary},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cary},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}