Bailey

(English topographic surname): See bailey (“outer castle wall”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪli/

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• Rhymes: -eɪli

Bailey (countable and uncountable, plural Baileys)

1. (countable) A surname.
   • 2024 July 25, Kara Scannell, “Judge who ordered Trump to pay $454 million says he was ‘accosted’ by lawyer and won’t recuse himself from case”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “I did not initiate, welcome, encourage, engage in, or learn from much less enjoy, [Adam] Bailey’s tirade. I did not base any part of any of my rulings on it, as Bailey has outlandishly, mistakenly, and defamatorily claimed,” Engoron wrote.

   1. An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.
   2. An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).
   3. An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).
2. (countable) A unisex given name
   1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   2. (chiefly US) A female given name transferred from the surname.
3. A placename
   1. A sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin), located in the Atlantic.
   2. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
      2. An unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
      3. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
      4. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri; named for early settler John Martin Bailey.
      5. A town in Nash County, North Carolina.
      6. A ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
      7. A minor city in Fannin County, Texas.

• (surname): Bailie, Baily, Bayly, Bayley
• (female given name): Bailee, Baylee

Bailey (plural Baileys)

1. An apple cultivar from New York