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Hartley¹

  • /ˈhɑːtli/ UK
  • /ˈhɑɹtli/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)tli

Where it comes from

From Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hart + -ley (“lea”).

proper noun Hartleys · Artley

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7808).
  2. countable, uncountable A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX488325).
  3. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ605675).
  4. countable, uncountable A village in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst parish, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7534).
  5. countable, uncountable A suburb of Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, on the border with Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3375)
  6. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Solano County, California.
  7. countable, uncountable A city and township in O'Brien County, Iowa.
  8. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Gogebic County, Michigan.
  9. countable, uncountable A township in Union County, Pennsylvania.
  10. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Haakon County, South Dakota.
  11. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Hartley County, Texas.
  12. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Hartley County
  13. countable, uncountable A locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  14. countable A habitational surname from Old English.

hartley²

  • /ˈhɑːtli/ UK
  • /ˈhɑɹtli/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)tli

Where it comes from

Named after Ralph Hartley (1888–1970), electronics researcher.

noun hartleys

  1. A unit of information (symbol Hart) representing the information content of an event if the probability of that event occurring is 1/10. It is therefore equal to the information contained in one decimal digit

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: shannon, asp, brewer, repeal, taft, lafond, ban, dit, decit, hart, h, hartleys, logit, hartland, hartshorne, hatley

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"hartley." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hartley. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

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@misc{hartley_2026,
  title = {hartley},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hartley},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}