Word info

Beverly

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname
A female given name transferred from the surname. Popular in the 1930s to the 1950s in the U.S., partly because of its association with Beverly Hills (where the stars live).

A city in Lincoln County, Kansas, United States.

A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

A city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

A village in Washington County, Ohio, United States.

A town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

(uncountable) A common place name from the surname or the given name:
An unincorporated community in Elbert County, Georgia, United States.

An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.

An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.

An unincorporated community in Hitchcock County, Nebraska, United States.

An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington, United States.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Phrases with the word

Examples

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. Woody Allen

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think. Hugh Laurie

After Beverly Hills there was no fog. The palms along the road stood out green in the bluish darkness, and the white line in the pavement leaped ahead of us like a burning fuse. A few clouds tumbled and tossed, but there were no stars. John Fante

I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don't raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies. Andrew Dice Clay

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home. Harpo Marx

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up. Bela Fleck

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