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Vinony

Ashley

proper noun

  1. given name
  2. family name
  3. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæʃli/ / [ˈæʃlɪi̯]

name

Etymology: From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.

  1. A number of villages and hamlets in England:
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  12. A surname from Old English derived from the places in England.
  13. A male given name transferred from the surname.

    “'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'”

    “In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it.”

  14. A female given name transferred from the surname.

    “But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.”

    “I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.”

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  24. A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
  25. A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand.