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Stanhope¹

  • /ˈstæ.nəp/

Where it comes from

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

proper noun

  1. A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
  2. A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
  3. A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
  4. An English habitational surname from Old English.
  5. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
  6. A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  7. A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia.
  8. A village in Quebec.
  9. A community in Prince Edward Island.
  10. A settlement in Newfoundland.
  11. A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
  12. A borough in Sussex County, New Jersey.
  13. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
  14. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

stanhope²

Where it comes from

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

noun 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.

stanhope³

Where it comes from

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

noun 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

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@misc{stanhope_2026,
  title = {stanhope},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stanhope},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}