Word.ws English Dictionary

stanhopes

stanhopes is the plural of stanhope.

Meaning of stanhope

Noun (1)

stanhope (plural stanhopes)

  1. 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

Noun (2)

stanhope (plural stanhopes)

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

See all 17 meanings of stanhope

Questions about stanhopes

What is stanhopes the plural of?
Stanhopes is the plural of stanhope.

Words near stanhopes in the dictionary

  1. stangs
  2. Stanhoe
  3. stanhope
  4. Stanhope Gardens
  5. Stanhope South
  6. stanhopes
  7. Stanhopian
  8. staniel
  9. staniels
  10. Stanier
  11. Stanifer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stanhopes (page history and authors); stanhope (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: “stanhopes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stanhopes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.