Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Riley, James Whitcomb Known as "the Hoosier poet.” 1849-1916. American poet whose most famous works, "Little Orphant Annie” (1885) and "The Raggedy Man” (1890), were written in speech patterns particular to Indiana.
Wiktionary
- n. A surname of Irish origin, variant of Reilly.
- n. An English habitational surname from Ryley in Lancashire, from Old English ryge ("rye") +leah ("clearing, meadow").
- n. A manufacurer of British motorcars (1907-1969) named after William Riley Jr.
- n. A male given name, transferred use of the surnames since the nineteenth century.
- n. A female given name used since the 1990s.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States poet (1849-1916)
Examples
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“2010 LOOK AHEAD: Like last season, Cal goes into spring ball with a quarterback competition, even though 2009 starter Kevin Riley is returning.”
“Although I generally recommend against eating scenes, I think that a brief eating scene might be justified to show that Riley is recuperating but is still in a pretty rough shape.”
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“Riley is confused, but he chooses to call him Hardy.”
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“Riley is supposed to be quite negative in his minds, though as their friendship grows, he becomes less and less negative.”
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“Considering the fact that in the book Eclipse, Riley is relegated to just one page of the story … in the movie version, he gets a real part of the action.”
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