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Carey

/ˈkɛɚ.i//ˈkɛəɹi/

Carey proper noun: a hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).

carey: a hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref...
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Proper noun

Carey (countable and uncountable, plural Careys)

  1. A hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).
  2. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Georgia.
  3. A minor city in Blaine County, Idaho.
  4. A village in Crawford Township, Wyandot County, Ohio.
  5. An unincorporated community in Childress County, Texas.
  6. A town in Iron County, Wisconsin.
  7. An island of Nunavut, Canada, in James Bay off the coast of Quebec; in full, Carey Island.
  8. An English habitational surname from either of these placenames.
  9. A surname from Irish, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Ciardha.
  10. A Celtic surname from Welsh, derived from Carew.
  11. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  12. A female given name, variant of Cary.

Forms of Carey

pluralCareys
alternative formCary

Origin of Carey

* As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring. * As a Welsh surname, variant of Carew. * As an English surname, from placenames derived from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (“to love”). * As an Irish surname, from mac Fhiachra (“descendant of Fiachra”), from préachán (“crow”). * Also as an Irish surname, from the root of the name Kerry.

Words formed from Carey

Phrases with Carey

Words that rhyme with Carey

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Questions about Carey

What does Carey mean?
Carey means a hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).
What part of speech is Carey?
Carey is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Carey?
Carey is pronounced /ˈkɛəɹi/ (UK).

Words near Carey in the dictionary

  1. carewornness
  2. careworthy
  3. Carews
  4. carex
  5. carexes
  6. Carey
  7. Carey Bay
  8. Carey Fineman Ziter syndrome
  9. Careyesque
  10. Careys
  11. carf

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Carey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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