Bartlett

¹ American  

[bahrt-lit] / ˈbɑrt lɪt /

noun

Horticulture.

1. a large, yellow, juicy variety of pear.

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Bartlett ² American  

[bahrt-lit] / ˈbɑrt lɪt /

noun

1. John, 1820–1905, U.S. publisher: compiled Familiar Quotations.

2. John Russell, 1805–86, U.S. editor and bibliographer of early Americana.

3. Josiah, 1729–95, U.S. physician and statesman.

4. Paul Wayland, 1865–1925, U.S. sculptor.

5. Robert Abram, 1875–1946, U.S. Arctic explorer, born in Newfoundland.

6. Vernon, 1894–1983, English writer.

7. a town in southwestern Tennessee.

8. a town in northeastern Illinois.

9. a first name, form of Bartholomew.

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Bartlett British  

/ ˈbɑːtlɪt /

noun

1. the Williams pear, used esp in the US and generally of tinned pears

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Etymology

Origin of Bartlett

1825–35, so named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Mass.

Example Sentences

It proved a double blow for Scotland with prop Leah Bartlett sent to the sin bin on her 50th appearance for an infringement in the build-up.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

By early Monday afternoon, she had pushed deeper into the county to west of the community of Bartlett, said Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

The team located them using a new computational tool called Conservatory, developed through collaboration among the laboratories of Idan Efroni at Hebrew University, Madelaine Bartlett at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University, and Zachary Lippman at CSHL.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Bartlett says she’s not sure she can create a product that people “really need.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

We imagined the places we would go and the people we would meet, far away from Bartlett, Indiana, population 14,983, where we felt like aliens from some distant planet.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven