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Orville

Orville proper noun: a male given name originating as a coinage.

Proper noun

Orville

  1. A male given name originating as a coinage.
    • I saw that the rank of Lord Orville was his least recommendation, his understanding and his manners being far more distinguished.1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina, Derby & Jackson, published 1857, page 38
    • Orville Wright was born in 1871. Milton and Susan selected the names of their offspring with great care and considered middle names unnecessary.1998, Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers, Courier Dover, →ISBN, page 4

Origin of Orville

Invented by Fanny Burney for the hero of her novel Evelina. It has been suggested that it is based on the very old Welsh forename of Eurfyl, meaning 'gold'.

Questions about Orville

What does Orville mean?
Orville means a male given name originating as a coinage.
What part of speech is Orville?
Orville is a proper noun.

Words near Orville in the dictionary

  1. orvietite
  2. Orvieto
  3. Orvieto ware
  4. Orvieto wares
  5. Orvietos
  6. Orville
  7. Orvin
  8. Orvis
  9. ORW
  10. Orwell
  11. Orwellesque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Orville (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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