Trevor
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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛvɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛvə/
- Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Proper noun
Trevor
- A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
- 1941, Graham Greene, “The Destructors”, in Collected Stories, Heinemann, page 327:
- He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -
- A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
- A community of the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.