Trevor

English

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  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛvɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛvə/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)

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Trevor

  1. A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
    • 1941, Graham Greene, “The Destructors”, in Collected Stories, Heinemann, page 327:
      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 been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -
    • 2021 October 20, Jennifer Tucker, “Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question”, in CNN‎[1]:
      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.
  2. A surname.
  3. A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
  4. A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.

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