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kiley

kiley is the archaic form of kylie.

Meaning of kylie

Noun

kylie (plural kylies)

  1. (Australia, Western) A boomerang.
    • Then we drove up to the cricket-ground to see them throw their boomerangs or kylies, which they did very cleverly. One of the kylies was broken against a tree, but most of the others flew with unerring precision.1889, Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam, published 2010, page 252

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Proper noun capitalized: Kiley

Kiley (plural Kileys)

  1. A surname.
    • In November 2024, Kiley won reelection in the district where Folsom is located by about 11 points, though Trumps' victory was closer to 3 points, according to data compiled by analyst Drew Savicki and cited by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.2025 April 16, Andrew Stanton, “Bernie Sanders Rally Crowd Size Tops 30K in District Trump Won Three Times”, in Newsweek
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage; compare Kylie.

Forms of kiley

Noun
pluralkileys
Proper noun
pluralKileys

Questions about kiley

What does kiley mean?
Kiley means a surname.
What is kiley the archaic form of?
Kiley is the archaic form of kylie.
What part of speech is kiley?
Kiley is a proper noun.

Words near kiley in the dictionary

  1. kileh
  2. kilehs
  3. kilerg
  4. kilergs
  5. kiles
  6. kiley
  7. kileys
  8. Kilgannon
  9. Kilgariff
  10. Kilgariffs
  11. Kilgerran

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiley (page history and authors); Kiley (page history and authors); kylie (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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