cavendish
/ˈkævəndɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.16 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
Countable; Uncountable
name
A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Their captain's a swine, an evil bastard. Name of Cavendish."
- "Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes."
- ""But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said."
- "No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." ""
- "Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred."
- "It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish."
Etymology
* (English village): "Cāfna's enclosure", from Old English personal name *Cāfna + edisċ (“pasture”); recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB). * (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. * (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
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Synonyms
Chinese banana
dwarf banana