英和和英

語源

From 古期英語 hwītan, dative of hwīt (“white”) + īeġ (“island”), "white island".

発音

• IPA: (wine–whine merger) /ˈwɪtni/, (without the wine–whine merger) /ˈʍɪtni/

固有名詞

Whitney

1. A habitational surname from Middle English.
2. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston.
   • 1993, James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck, Picador, published 1994, →ISBN, page 138:

     "I don't believe I've ever known a woman named 'Whitney'," I said, trying not to look too deeply into her bright blue eyes. "Or, hell, even a man for that matter."
     "You've never heard of Whitney Houston?"
     "Who's that?" I said, realizing that I had never gotten really serious about a woman with blue eyes.

   • 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN‎:

     “His research shows you can change aging to make lives younger for longer. Now he wants to change the world and make aging a disease,” said Whitney Casey, an investor who is partnering with Sinclair to create a do-it-yourself biological age test.

3. A male given name from surname.
4. A community in South Algonquin municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Idaho.
   2. An unorganized territory in Penobscot County, Maine.
   3. A township in Arenac County, Michigan.
   4. An unincorporated community in Harris Township, Menominee County, Michigan.
   5. A village in Dawes County, Nebraska.
   6. A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
   7. An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
   8. A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
   9. A city in Hill County, Texas.
   10. A ghost town in Skagit County, Washington.
   11. A ghost town in Fayette County, West Virginia.

派生語

• Mount Whitney
• Whitney-on-Wye
• Whitney's theorem

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