Bradley

[ brad-lee ]

/ ˈbræd li /

noun

BillWilliam Warren, born 1943, U.S. basketball player and politician: senator from New Jersey 1979–97.

Francis Herbert,1846–1924, English philosopher.

Henry,1845–1923, English lexicographer and philologist.

Omar Nelson,1893–1981, U.S. general: Chief of Staff 1948–49; chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949–53.

ThomasTom, 1917–1998, U.S. politician: mayor of Los Angeles 1973–93.

a town in NE Illinois.

a male given name.

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Examples from the Web for bradley

Bradley was a man who worried deeply and brooded over the lives lost among his commands.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day|James Jones|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I assume Bradley saw demonstrations of the “Funnies” before rejecting them.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day|James Jones|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the bad weather and heavy seas could not be blamed on Bradley.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day|James Jones|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The drawback was that the terrain in front of Bradley made success very costly.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day|James Jones|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

This coming week, a revival of the play goes into previews, with Bradley Cooper in the starring role.
The True Story of ‘The Elephant Man’|Russell Saunders|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Bradley, meeting them half way, literally had to drag them back.
Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall|Janet D. Wheeler
Bradley heard voices up the creek but paid no special attention to them, and busied himself with his job.
Laramie Holds the Range|Frank H. Spearman
Bradley felt an impulse to call him out of his box and whip him.
A Spoil of Office|Hamlin Garland
Besides, it would be inconvenient if she were to die, as Dr. Bradley quite solemnly had warned him she might only too probably.
Dust|Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
But neither Bradley nor Ben was willing to go to such extremes.
Ben's Nugget|Horatio, Jr. Alger

British Dictionary definitions for bradley

Bradley

/ (ˈbrædlɪ) /

noun

A (ndrew) C (ecil). 1851–1935, English critic; author of Shakespearian Tragedy (1904)

F (rancis) H (erbert). 1846–1924, English idealist philosopher and metaphysical thinker; author of Ethical Studies (1876), Principles of Logic (1883), and Appearance and Reality (1893)

Henry . 1845–1923, English lexicographer; one of the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary

James . 1693–1762, English astronomer, who discovered the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis

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