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berkeley
/ˈbɝkli/
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What does berkeley mean?
proper noun
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- An English barony.
More meanings (12)
proper noun
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP6899).
- A city in Alameda County, California.
- A neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado.
- A village in Cook County, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
- A suburban city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
- A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
- A village in the town of Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island.
- An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
- The University of California, Berkeley metonym.
- A community in Chatsworth, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
- A suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
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I asked one of the professors to what extent marriages were made in Berkeley, but he had no statistics.
Has he stolen to Southampton, and slipped away a-volunteering like Norborne Berkeley, to conquer France in a dirty shirt and a frock?
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The owner should appeal to the Experiment Station at Berkeley for serum and treat all well hogs and clean up as thoroughly as possible.
There is a curious question that has risen out of this proposition of Berkeley, of the supposed illusion we suffer in our conceptions of the material universe.
But this is an entirely different point from the one by which Berkeley seeks to prove that whatever can be immediately known must be in a mind.