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colley

colley is the dated form of collie.

Meaning of collie

Noun

collie (plural collies)

  1. Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs

See all 6 meanings of collie

Proper noun capitalized: Colley

Colley

  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States.

Forms of colley

pluralcolleys

Words formed from colley

Questions about colley

What does colley mean?
Colley means a surname.
What is colley the dated form of?
Colley is the dated form of collie.
What part of speech is colley?
Colley is a proper noun.

Words near colley in the dictionary

  1. Colletti
  2. collettinside
  3. Collettis
  4. collettiside
  5. Colletts
  6. colley
  7. colleys
  8. Colleyville
  9. Colli
  10. Collick
  11. Collicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colley (page history and authors); Colley (page history and authors); collie (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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