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What does Stanley mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Stanley? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A habitational surname​.
  2. Any of several places, outside England named for persons with the surname.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in early 20th century.
Name
  1. A male given name of English and Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Rocky meadow.
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Stanley has one of the most joyless birthday parties imaginable thrown in his honour, with an undercurrent of menace never far from the surface.
After walking Stanley, Barber was replaced by Miller who got Don Weft to hit a grounder up the middle.
Poynton's arrant realism provides echoes of Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer, Eric Fischl and Philip Pearlstein.
The authors who undertake succeeding volumes will do well to follow the lead set by Stanley Hall.
Stanley Morgan was sitting behind his desk with a telephone receiver to his ear when Emily walked through the open door.
I decided to walk westwards along West Vancouver's Seawall, a much quieter version than that of Stanley Park.

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