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Beverly

Beverly proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Beverly (countable and uncountable, plural Beverlys)

  1. A surname.
  2. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1930s to the 1950s in the U.S., partly because of its association with Beverly Hills (where the stars live).
    • Everybody in Washington's social and diplomatic circles admired the beautiful Beverly Calhoun.1904, George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly of Graustark, Kissinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 6
    • Mama had chosen the name Lark. - - - Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, →ISBN, page 2
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • Having a name some people thought of as feminine had turned Beverly Lamartine to building up his muscles in his youth, and they still bulged, hard as ingots in some places, now lost in others.1984, Louise Erdrich, Love medicine, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 74
  4. An unincorporated community in Elbert County, Georgia, United States.
  5. A city in Lincoln County, Kansas, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
  7. A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
  8. An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
  9. An unincorporated community in Hitchcock County, Nebraska, United States.
  10. A city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
  11. A village in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
  12. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington, United States.
  13. A town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
  14. A former town, a district of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Forms of Beverly

pluralBeverlys

Origin of Beverly

A variant spelling of Beverley.

Words formed from Beverly

Phrases with Beverly

Questions about Beverly

What does Beverly mean?
Beverly means a surname.
What part of speech is Beverly?
Beverly is a proper noun.

Words near Beverly in the dictionary

  1. Beverley
  2. Beverley Park
  3. Beverleys
  4. Beverlin
  5. Beverlins
  6. Beverly
  7. Beverly Farms
  8. Beverly Hills
  9. Beverly Hills Iranian
  10. Beverlys
  11. bevers

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