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• stanhope
  stanhope

  noun

  a light, open, one-seated, horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels.
• Stanhope
  Stanhope

  noun

  James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.

stanhope

¹ American  

[stan-hohp, stan-uhp] / ˈstænˌhoʊp, ˈstæn əp /

noun

1. a light, open, one-seated, horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels.

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Stanhope ² American  

[stan-hohp, stan-uhp] / ˈstænˌhoʊp, ˈstæn əp /

noun

1. James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.

2. Philip Dormer Chesterfield, 4th Earl of.

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Stanhope ¹ British  

/ ˈstænəp /

noun

1. Charles , 3rd Earl. 1753–1816, British radical politician and scientist. His inventions included two calculating machines, a microscope lens, and a stereotyping machine

2. his grandfather, James , 1st Earl. 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman; George I's chief minister (1717–21). He fought under Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) and negotiated the Triple Alliance with France and Holland (1717)

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stanhope ² British  

/ ˈstænəp /

noun

1. a light one-seater carriage with two or four wheels

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Etymology

Origin of stanhope

1795–1805; named after Fitzroy Stanhope (1787–1864), British clergyman

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Example Sentences

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The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope.

From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Perhaps the most perfect thing in the world, however, is a St. James's-street stanhope or cabriolet, with its dandy owner on the whip-seat, and the "tiger" beside him.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes.

From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

Arrived at Lakenhall, where the stanhope was waiting for him, he asked but one question on the way to Long Stow, and then drove straight past the hall to the church.

From Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Chan, of Stanhope Avenue, Finchley, is expected to be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on 12 February.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

"It was raining, we were all in the tent playing cards with the gang, then we heard shouting," camper Matthew Stanhope told The Age newspaper, saying he and his friends ran to a nearby hill.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

Two deals Corient struck over the past year, for European firm Stanhope Capital Group and Stonehage Fleming, added more than $200 billion in assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

As Vera Stanhope, Brenda Blethyn helped create both a revolutionary television character and one of ITV’s longest-running series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

Kay Turner was marrying Percy Stanhope next month.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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