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
- 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
- A surname.
- A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
- A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
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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).
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