stanhope
IPA: stˈænʌp
noun
- A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
- A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
- An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
- A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
- A neighborhood of Ashford, Kent, England.
- A settlement in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.
- An English habitational surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
- A town in Victoria, Australia.
- A locale in Canada.
- A village in Quebec.
- A community in Prince Edward Island.
- A settlement in Newfoundland.
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
- A borough of New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio.
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Examples of "stanhope" in Sentences
- Stanhope had his share of vices as well.
- Stanhope receives a message that he is needed.
- Stanhope was a separate community in the 1890s.
- Stanhope was defeated in a tumultuous election.
- Addey and Stanhope is a non denominational school.
- The letter is in fact full of praise for Stanhope.
- Stanhope had surrendered at Brihuega the day previous.
- Later it came into the possession of the Stanhope family.
- The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope.
- As a politician Stanhope left few traces in the history books.
- Flasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope of
- Stanhope followed the same paraphrastic system in a translation of Thomas a.
- The stanhope is all to atoms, and the farmer claims compensation for the gate.
- One day in the ring, Rawdons stanhope came in sight; Rebecca was seated by him.
- But let us get on to the next inn, and send people after the stanhope and the mare.
- When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes.
- He hurried me into the stanhope, gave the rein to his active grey mare, and making a detour towards Kingston, we soon left the crowd behind us.
- Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow.
- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in