clarence
/ˈklæɹəns/
clarence noun: a kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
Noun
clarence (plural clarences)
- A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
Proper noun capitalized: Clarence
Clarence
- A ducal title which has been traditionally awarded to junior members of the English and British royal families
- Warwick. Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester;
And George, of Clarence; Warwick, as ourself,
Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.
Richard. Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester,
For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Warwick. Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester;
- An English surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 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...1847 William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, W. Orr July-December 1847, page 61 ( "The Aristocracy of Names")
- Got rather a silly name. Like a hotel. You know, the Royal Clarence. That's his name. Clarence."1973, Agatha Christie, Postern of Fate, page 221
- A locality in the City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.
- 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; in full, the City of Clarence.
- A settlement in north Canterbury, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Clarence River.
- A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
- A community and former township in the city of Clarence-Rockland, eastern Ontario.
- An unincorporated community in Button Township, Ford County, Illinois.
- A city in Cedar County, Iowa.
- A township in Barton County, Kansas.
- A village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
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- A township in Calhoun County, Michigan.
- A minor city in Shelby County, Missouri.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Erie County, New York.
- A census-designated place in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
- A ghost town in the town of Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin.
- A river in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, a tributary of the Lys.
- A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which discharges into the Coral Sea, named after the Duke of Clarence,
- A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Clarence.
clarence meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Nepali
clarence in Telugu
- క్లారెన్స్
clarence in Malayalam
- ക്ലാരൻസ്
clarence in Kannada
- ಕ್ಲಾರೆನ್ಸ್
clarence in Nepali
- क्लेरेन्स
Forms of clarence
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Origin of clarence
Named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become William IV of the United Kingdom.
Originally a ducal title of the English and British royal family, from Clārensis (“from the town of Clare”), (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.
Words formed from clarence
Questions about clarence
- What does clarence mean?
- Clarence means a kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
- What is clarence in Telugu?
- Clarence in Telugu is క్లారెన్స్. See Clarence meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is clarence?
- Clarence can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce clarence?
- Clarence is pronounced /ˈklæɹəns/.
- What is the plural of clarence?
- The plural of clarence is clarences.
Words near clarence in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: clarence (page history and authors); Clarence (page history and authors); clarence (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clarence (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clarence (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clarence (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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