Cary

See also: cary, čáry, and cà ry

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

Proper noun

Cary

1. A surname, a less common spelling of Carey.
2. A male given name transferred from the surnames.
   • 1999, Ian Rankin, Dead Souls, →ISBN, page 246:

     "You'll laugh when I tell you my name. All I can say is, nobody consulted me."
     "Why, what's your name?" Laughing now as he stepped past her into the hall.
     "Cary," he told her. "After the actor. Only I've never managed to be quite so suave."

3. A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The West Wind Blows”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 40:

     "My sister gave it me,—my only sister, Cary. Would that your aunt Caroline had lived to see her niece!"

4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A village in Algonquin Township, McHenry County and Cuba Township, Lake County, Illinois.
   2. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Putnam County, Indiana.
   3. A ghost town in Harrison Township, Miami County, Indiana.
   4. An unorganised township in Aroostook County, Maine.
   5. A town in Sharkey County, Mississippi.
   6. A town in Wake County, Chatham County and Durham County, North Carolina.
   7. A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
5. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

Derived terms

• Castle Cary (from the river)

Anagrams

• Cray, cray, racy