Jellicoe

American  

[jel-i-koh] / ˈdʒɛl ɪˌkoʊ /

noun

1. John Rushworth 1st Earl, 1859–1935, British admiral.

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Jellicoe British  

/ ˈdʒɛlɪˌkəʊ /

noun

1. John Rushworth, 1st Earl Jellicoe. 1859–1935, British admiral, who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916), which incapacitated the German fleet for the rest of World War I

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Example Sentences

Those seeking shelter were assigned to a specific section of Clapham South, each of which was named after a famous British admiral, including Collingwood, Drake and Jellicoe.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2018

To borrow Emily Nussbaum’s taxonomy, Sally is a hummingbird, a class of female characters, who like Leslie Knope or Enlightened’s Amy Jellicoe are “idealistic feminine dreamers whose personalities are irritants.”

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2018

These are questions that Beatriz — like Amy Jellicoe, the self-help poster girl played by Laura Dern on “Enlightened” — takes incredibly seriously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2017

Harold Jellicoe Percival helped with the famous Dambusters raids during the Second World War.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2013

We were standing at the corner of Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road, right in the heart of Johannesburg’s wealthy, white suburbia, and there were no minibuses.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah