cary
/kˈɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.42 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name transferred from the surnames.
name
A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- ""You'll laugh when I tell you my name. All I can say is, nobody consulted me." "Why, what's your name?" Laughing now as he stepped past her into the hall. "Cary," he told her. "After the actor. Only I've never managed to be quite so suave.""
- ""My sister gave it me,—my only sister, Cary. Would that your aunt Caroline had lived to see her niece!""
- "That firſt, and higheſt Sphere, / That mooues, and is not moou’d againe / Of any other heauen, that mooues one whit: / The which with his Careare, / And ſwifteſt courſe doth turne away / The loweſt heauens, and caries after it: / An order doth admit, / And doth maintaine, not erring in the leſt: / For it doth cary them with ſpeede, / And with more haſte (indeede) / The neareſt heauen to it, from Eaſt to Weſt: / But rule thou doſt diſdaine, / And onely without order doſt remaine."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.