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Heywood

American  
[hey-wood] / ˈheɪ wʊd /

noun

  1. John, 1497?–1580?, English dramatist and epigrammatist.

  2. Thomas, 1573?–1641, English dramatist, poet, and actor.

  3. a male given name.

Heywood 1 British  
/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

  1. John. ?1497–?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes

  2. Thomas. ?1574–1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)

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Heywood 2 British  
/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop: 28 024 (2001))

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The mother of one of those boys - Alan 'Chinner' Heywood - had directed Virgo to the club off Trafford Road.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Prosecution barrister Mark Heywood KC said Voloshyn asked Gill to book a room.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity,” attorney Chris Heywood said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity; men of integrity do not cheat and defraud others,” Chris Heywood, Billups’ attorney, said in a statement Tuesday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

My professor, Linda Heywood, was slight and bespectacled, spoke with a high Trinidadian lilt that she employed like a hammer against young students like me who confused agitprop with hard study.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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