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blythe
/blaɪð/
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What does blythe mean?
proper noun
- A city in Riverside County, California, United States.
- A minor city in Richmond County, Georgia, United States.
- A township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Calvin Blythe.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A river in Warwickshire and West Midlands, England, which joins the River Tame north-east of Coleshill, Warwickshire.
- A surname from Old English either derived from a nickname, or from the English places.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, reinforced by the word blithe.
adjective
- (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of blithe.
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IPA pronunciation
/blaɪð/
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She flung herself into her studies heart and soul, determined not to be outdone in any class by Gilbert Blythe.
These were William D. James, Robert Brownfield, Thomas Mitchell and Joseph Blythe.
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These stations are at Calshot, on Southampton Water, the Isle of Grain, off Sheerness, Leven, on the Firth of Forth, Cromarty, Yarmouth, Blythe, and Cleethorpes.
Nought nedeth it to yow, sin they ben met, To aske at me if that they blythe were; For if it erst was wel, tho was it bet A thousand-fold, this nedeth not enquere.
Up the mountains they go, high-heeled and high-hatted, laden like Christian with mortifications and mortgages of divers sorts and degrees, some suffering from the sting of bad bargains, others exulting in good ones; hunters and fishermen with gun and rod and leggins; blythe and jolly troubadours to whom all Shasta is romance; poets singing their prayers; the weak and the strong, unable or unwilling to bear mental taxation.