"Woolley" meaning in English

See Woolley in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Woolleys [plural]
Etymology: From Old English wulf (“wolf”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wolf + -ley (“lea”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|wulf||wolf}} Old English wulf (“wolf”), {{suf|en|wolf|-leigh|alt2=-ley|t2=lea}} wolf + -ley (“lea”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~|s}} Woolley (countable and uncountable, plural Woolleys)
  1. A place in England:
    A hamlet in Barham and Woolley parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1574).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Cambridgeshire, England, Places in England, Villages in Cambridgeshire, England, Villages in England Derived forms: Barham and Woolley, Woolley Grange, Woolley Moor
    Sense id: en-Woolley-en-name-2tKpYCHe
  2. A place in England:
    A hamlet in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SS2516).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Cornwall, England, Places in England, Villages in Cornwall, England, Villages in England
    Sense id: en-Woolley-en-name-xqU9588o
  3. A place in England:
    A small village in Charlcombe parish, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset (OS grid ref ST7468).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in England, Places in Somerset, England, Villages in England, Villages in Somerset, England
    Sense id: en-Woolley-en-name-Ez4Ccq0L
  4. A place in England:
    A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3213).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Civil parishes of England, Places in England, Places in West Yorkshire, England, Villages in England, Villages in West Yorkshire, England
    Sense id: en-Woolley-en-name-M3Z~NJ9T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 9 12 31 8 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 10 14 34 9 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 10 13 36 9 9
  5. A place in England:
    A suburb of Bradford-on-Avon, west Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8361).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in England, Places in Wiltshire, England, Suburbs in Wiltshire, England
    Sense id: en-Woolley-en-name-9b2i1TIT
  6. A habitational surname from Old English. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Woolley-en-name-zLJicHqr Categories (other): English surnames, English terms suffixed with -leigh Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -leigh: 15 8 17 23 5 31

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.