Clarence

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
 Clarence River on Wikipedia
La Clarence, at Lapugnoy, France

Etymology[edit]

Originally a ducal title of the English and British royal family, believed to originate from the town of Clare, Suffolk, although it has also been associated with Italian Chiarenza, Clarentza, &c., a former fortress and settlement in the medieval Frankish Principality of Achaea in Greece.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈklæɹəns/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Proper noun[edit]

Clarence

  1. A ducal title which has been traditionally awarded to junior members of the English and British royal families
  2. An English surname.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • 1847 William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, W. Orr July-December 1847, page 61 ( "The Aristocracy of Names"):
      There is one of the novels of Miss Edgeworth - we forget which - in which a gentleman of the name of Harvey figures as a hero. Harvey! Only fancy John, Peter, or William Harvey as the hero of a novel! But Miss Edgeworth was too well acquaintanced with the philosophy of names to commit such a blunder: she made the individual Clarence Harvey, and the name has never to this day been objected to even among the female teens.
    • 1973, Agatha Christie, Postern of Fate, page 221:
      Got rather a silly name. Like a hotel. You know, the Royal Clarence. That's his name. Clarence."
  4. A placename given to towns in countries settled by the British.
    1. A place in Australia:
      1. A locality in the City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.
      2. The City of Clarence, a local government area in the Greater Hobart area of south-east Tasmania, Australia, named after the Duke of Clarence and a ship with that name.
    2. A settlement in north Canterbury, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Clarence River. [1]
    3. A place in Canada:
      1. A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
      2. A community and former township in the city of Clarence-Rockland, eastern Ontario.
    4. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Button Township, Ford County, Illinois.
      2. A city in Cedar County, Iowa.
      3. A township in Barton County, Kansas
      4. A village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
      5. A township in Calhoun County, Michigan.
      6. A minor city in Shelby County, Missouri.
      7. A town and census-designated place therein, in Erie County, New York.
      8. A census-designated place in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
      9. A ghost town in the town of Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin.
  5. A name given to several rivers, including one in France and others in countries settled by the British.
    1. A river in the Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, a tributary of the Lys.
    2. A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which discharges into the Coral Sea, named after the Duke of Clarence,
    3. A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Clarence.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ NZ Topo Map

Anagrams[edit]

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English Clarence.

Proper noun[edit]

Clarence

  1. a male given name from English

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English Clarence.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Clarence (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜇᜒᜈ᜔ᜐ᜔)

  1. a male given name from English
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