Word info

Wheatley

Proper noun

Meaning

(countable) An English surname from Old English. Derived from the place name

A placename:
A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.

A community in Chatham-Kent, south-western Ontario, Canada.

A hamlet in Binsted parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7840).

A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5905).

A northern suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5804).

A suburb of Halifax, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0726).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

According to Wheatley himself, this is definitely a remake of the 1940 Hitchcock film. Source: Internet

After a one season detour to a school in Chattanooga, he returned to Northview in January of 2015 and six months later Head Coach Sid Wheatley would be compelled to leave for a job in his native Mississippi. Source: Internet

I felt a twinge of familiarity in the austere rows of metal beds in the Methuen Home—the orphanage where Beth lives after her mother’s sudden death—and in the matchy-matchy décor at the home of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Wheatley, in suburban Lexington. Source: Internet

In 1778, the African-American poet Jupiter Hammon wrote an ode to Wheatley (“An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley”). Source: Internet

Ben Wheatley Television * "Thirteen to Centaurus" ( 1965 ) from the short story of the same name – dir. Source: Internet

Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley, New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Source: Internet

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