Nevil

[nev-uhl]

noun

1. a male given name, form of Neville.

Example Sentences

Nevil Muncaster, strategic water resources director at Thames Water, said he did not "anticipate the situation will improve any time soon".

From BBC

It made Trenberth think of Nevil Shute’s 1957 science fiction novel “On the Beach,” in which a nuclear war wiped out the Northern Hemisphere, forcing survivors to flee to southeast Australia and New Zealand.

From Salon

Forty years later, Nevil Maskelyne, a magician and an astronomy enthusiast, filmed a total solar eclipse in North Carolina.

From New York Times

“Do you know who compiled that table? Nevil Maskelyne! The royal astronomer of England! You’d be as apt to find a mistake in—well—in Newton’s Principia!”

From Literature

“My dear Mr. Bowditch, Moore didn’t compute that table. Do you know who did? Nevil Maskelyne, the royal astronomer of England!”

From Literature