stanhope

/ˈstæ.nəp/

stanhope noun: a gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.

Noun (1)

stanhope (plural stanhopes)

A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
- Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

stanhope (plural stanhopes)

A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron

Stanhope

A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
An English habitational surname from Old English.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia.
A village in Quebec.
A community in Prince Edward Island.
A settlement in Newfoundland.
A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
A borough of New Jersey.
An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.

plural	stanhopes

From Stanhope (“a surname”). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.

Named after Charles, the third Earl of Stanhope, the inventor of this magnifying glass design.

The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).

What does stanhope mean?: Stanhope means a gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
What part of speech is stanhope?: Stanhope can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce stanhope?: Stanhope is pronounced /ˈstæ.nəp/.
What is the plural of stanhope?: The plural of stanhope is stanhopes.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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