Word.ws English Dictionary

Hailes

Hailes proper noun: hailes Castle in East Lothian, Scotland, the origin of the baronetcy (OS grid ref NT5775). Also the plural of Haile.

Proper noun

Hailes

  1. Hailes Castle in East Lothian, Scotland, the origin of the baronetcy (OS grid ref NT5775).
  2. A small neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Scotland, possibly formerly known as Easter Hailes (OS grid ref NT2169)
  3. A small settlement in Stanway parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England, the location of Hailes Abbey (OS grid ref SO0430).

Also used as

Hailes is also the plural of Haile.

Words formed from Hailes

Questions about Hailes

What does Hailes mean?
Hailes means hailes Castle in East Lothian, Scotland, the origin of the baronetcy (OS grid ref NT5775).
What part of speech is Hailes?
Hailes is a proper noun.

Words near Hailes in the dictionary

  1. hailed down
  2. hailed from
  3. Hailee
  4. hailer
  5. hailers
  6. Hailes
  7. hailest
  8. haileth
  9. Hailey
  10. Hailey-Hailey disease
  11. Haileyburian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hailes (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hailes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hailes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.