Dudley Definition

dŭdlē
noun
A masculine name.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A town in the West Midlands.
Wiktionary

A habitational surname​, notably of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at the time of Elizabeth I.

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A male given name, transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
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Origin of Dudley

  • Old English "wood or clearing of Dudda (a personal name of unknown meaning)".

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Dudley Sentence Examples

  • The bishop's manor was alienated in 1550 to Sir Andrew Dudley, but West Teignmouth remained with the dean and chapter until early in the 19th century.

  • A similar work is the Arcano del mare of Sir Robert Dudley, duke of Northumberland, the numerous sheets of which are on Mercator's projection (1631).

  • When nose is higher than muzzle at the stop. Dudley Nose.

  • The town owes its rise to the discovery of the medicinal springs by Dudley, Lord North, in 1606.

  • This tribunal realized an idea put forward by Jeremy Bentham towards the close of the 18th century, advocated by James Mill in the middle of the 19th century, and worked out later by Mr Dudley Field in America, by Dr Goldschmidt in Germany, and by Sir Edmund Hornby and Mr Leone Levi in England.

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Words Starting With

DDUDUD

Words Ending With

YEYLEY

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Words Starting With D and Ending With Y

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With D6 Letter Words Ending With Y