Bradley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹædli/
rhymes: -ædli
Forms: form: Bradleys
form: Bradly
form: Bradeley
form: Bradly
form: Bradlee
form: Bradleigh
form: Bradlie
form: Bradly
form: Broadley
Etymology: Ultimately from Old English brād (“broad”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to broad + -ley.
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A former civil parish in Cheshire, part of Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley parish since 2015.
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A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2245).
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A hamlet in Wotton-under-Edge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7493).
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A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6341).
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A village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TA2406).
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Two villages, High Bradley and Low Bradley, in Bradleys Both parish, North Yorkshire.
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A village and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8818).
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A suburb in the City of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9595).
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A northern suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1620).
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A village in Gwersyllt community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3253).
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An unincorporated community in Alabama (unconfirmed).
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A minor city in Lafayette County, Arkansas.
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A census-designated place in Monterey County, California; named for landowner Bradley V. Sargent.
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An unincorporated community in Jones County, Georgia; named for railroad official John Wiley Bradley Jr..
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A township in Jackson County, Illinois.
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A village in Kankakee County, Illinois; named for plowman David Bradley.
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A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
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A town and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine; named for early settler Bradley Blackman.
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An unincorporated community in Wayland Township, Allegan County, Michigan.
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An unincorporated community in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.
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An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
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A small town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
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A census-designated place in Greenwood County, South Carolina.
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A small town in Clark County, South Dakota; named for townsperson E. R. Bradley.
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An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
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A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, named after Omar Bradley.
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A town and unincorporated community therein, in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English from any of these villages in England.
examples: text: Then there are the characters Rudd describes as “the full-on buffoons”, such as reporter Brian Fantana in Anchorman, who gives names to his testicles and – still my favourite Rudd performance – Andy the obnoxious summer camp counsellor in cult 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, which is being revived on Netflix this summer, in which Rudd will co-star alongside original cast members including Poehler and Bradley Cooper.
ref: 2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Bradleyan
Bradley Beach
Bradley Fold
Bradleyism
Bradley Land
Bradleys Both
Bradley Stoke
High Bradley
Low Bradley
Maiden Bradley
Related terms: Brad