Ashley

Syllables: Ash·ley/ˈæʃli/

Ashley proper noun: a village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).

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Proper noun

Ashley (countable and uncountable, plural Ashleys)

A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304).
A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394).
A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440).
A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595).
A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831).
A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048).
A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990).
A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636).
A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168).
A surname from Old English derived from the places in England.

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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.'1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter III, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC
- 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.2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “4. Revive the original neutrality policy.”, in larrysanger.org
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...1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls
- 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.2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832
Synonyms:

Ash
A minor city in Washington County, Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
A town in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
A village in Elba Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
A census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
A village in Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia; named for the local Ash family.
An unincorporated community in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Ashley meaning in Thai

Ashley in Thai

name: แอชลีย์ ɛ́ɛch-lîi

Examples of Ashley in a sentence

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.1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.”2020 September 30, Ashley Schwartz-Lavares and Steve Osunsami, “Black Americans are leaving their homes to start their own all-Black...

Synonyms of Ashley

Forms of Ashley

plural	Ashleys
alternative form	Ashlee
alternative form	Ashleigh
alternative form	Ashlie
alternative form	Ashly

Origin of Ashley

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

Words formed from Ashley

Questions about Ashley

What does Ashley mean?: Ashley means a village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
What is Ashley in Thai?: Ashley in Thai is แอชลีย์ (ɛ́ɛch-lîi). See Ashley meaning in Thai.
How do you use Ashley in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is Ashley?: Ashley is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Ashley?: Ashley is pronounced /ˈæʃli/.

Words near Ashley in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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