spencer
IPA: spˈɛnsɝ
Root Word: Spencer
noun
- (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation.
- (countable) A unisex given name
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of general 19th century and later usage.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- A placename
- A suburb of Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia; probably named for British politician George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer.
- A locality in the United States
- A town in Massachusetts; named for Massachusetts governor Spencer Phips.
- A city, the county seat of Clay County, Iowa.
- A city in Oklahoma.
- A town in North Carolina; named for railroad executive Samuel Spencer.
- A town and village in New York; named for New York statesman Ambrose Spencer.
- A city, the county seat of Roane County, West Virginia.
- A town, the county seat of Owen County, Indiana; named for Indiana militia officer Spier Spencer.
- A town and village in Wisconsin; named for the town in Massachusetts.
- A town, the county seat of Van Buren County, Tennessee; named for longhunter Thomas Sharp Spencer.
- A village in Ohio.
- A village in Nebraska; perhaps named for Alabama statesman George E. Spencer.
- A city in South Dakota; named for railroad official H. Spencer.
- A hamlet in Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for a local merchant.
- An unincorporated community in Virginia; named for first settler James Spencer Jr.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Spencer Township.
- An English earldom.
- (historical) A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- (historical) A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early 19th century.
- (historical) A (usually woollen) vest worn by women and girls for extra warmth.
- A large loose-fitted gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque, used from the nineteenth century onwards.
- Ellipsis of Spencer County. [A county of Indiana, United States. County seat: Rockport.]
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Examples of "spencer" in Sentences
- I wore what we knew as a "spencer" of thin, dotted white muslin.
- Yes | No | Report from spencer hannon ... wrote 2 weeks 3 days ago
- The point that "spencer" puts across is the main point of contention here.
- Yes | No | Report from spencer hannon ... wrote 2 weeks 3 days ago nice fish
- September 14, 2006 15: 57 spencer: is that cover what the end of the universe looks like?
- Taxing those making $100-300K more would indeed reduce the income inequality spencer is talking about.
- Chloe calls Nadia in spencer's offic he picks up the phone and says hello, chloe says if she can speack to Nadia.
- _jaqueta_ of the Spano-American; and still another fashion, the close-fitting embroidered "spencer" of the Mexican ranchero.
- As representing, then, the after half of this huge boom, we have the modern gaff, set at the same angle as the boom used to be; and at the foot of the sail hung on this gaff, now called a spencer or spanker, from the original inventor, we have the spanker boom, the same sort of thing as we should call the mainboom were the vessel a fore-and-aft yacht.
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