Definitions

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  • proper noun A male given name.
  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From Welsh Llywelyn.

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Examples

  • BTW, I was perusing this week's issue of Publishers Weekly, and your book was listed in Llewelyn's ad.

    Kee Yah!! 2006

  • BTW, I was perusing this week's issue of Publishers Weekly, and your book was listed in Llewelyn's ad.

    Kee Yah!! 2006

  • Butler had an exact memory as well as a good ear; if he said 'expendable', then that was the word Llewelyn had used.

    The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971

  • Lord Rhys had been ousted from Dynevor and Carreg Cennan castles by Prince Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, the last true, native Prince of Wales, also known as Llewelyn the Last.

    Cadfan's fields of blood Bob Lock 2006

  • Lord Rhys had been ousted from Dynevor and Carreg Cennan castles by Prince Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, the last true, native Prince of Wales, also known as Llewelyn the Last.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Bob Lock 2006

  • There is no probing of the relentless single-mindedness with which Barrie insinuated himself into the lives of the Llewelyn Davies family, whose five boys inspired the storytelling that led to "Peter Pan"; no mention of Alastair Grahame's decision to die violently at age 19—after years of ill health and paternal coldness—stretched out across a railroad track in front of an oncoming train; no reference to Carroll's penchant for photographing young girls in minimal clothing.

    Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark Elizabeth Lowry 2011

  • Llewelyn Moss is a welder living in Texas and he's just stumbled into a jackpot.

    Book Review: "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy 2009

  • Llewelyn Moss is a welder living in Texas and he's just stumbled into a jackpot.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Look for Oliver Reed and Desmond Llewelyn, who later would play Q in the James Bond movies.

    'Robin Hood' makes merry on classic DVDs 2010

  • Huddersfield Library And Art Gallery, to 27 NovRobert ClarkWhen it comes to skewering design culture mores, Richard Woods is as adept as any Laurence Llewelyn Bowen.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

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