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Trevor

/ˈtɹɛvə/US/ˈtɹɛvɚ/

Trevor proper noun: a male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.

Proper noun

Trevor

  1. A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
    • He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have...1941, Graham Greene, “The Destructors”, in Collected Stories, Heinemann, page 327
    • The designer of the study, Trevor Dupuy, was a decorated US Army colonel, a noted military historian and a founding faculty member of Harvard University’s Defense Studies Program.2021 October 20, Jennifer Tucker, “Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question”, in CNN
  2. A surname.
  3. A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
  4. A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.

Words formed from Trevor

Words that rhyme with Trevor

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Questions about Trevor

What does Trevor mean?
Trevor means a male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
What part of speech is Trevor?
Trevor is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Trevor?
Trevor is pronounced /ˈtɹɛvɚ/ (US).

Words near Trevor in the dictionary

  1. Trevizos
  2. Trevon
  3. Trevone
  4. Trevonta
  5. Trevontae
  6. Trevor
  7. Trevor disease
  8. trevorite
  9. Trevorrick
  10. Trevorrow
  11. Trevose

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