Walpole

American  

[wawl-pohl, wol-] / ˈwɔlˌpoʊl, ˈwɒl- /

noun

1. Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Horatio Walpole, 1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).

2. Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884–1941, English novelist, born in New Zealand.

3. Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford 1676–1745, British statesman: prime minister 1715–17; 1721–42.

4. a city in E Massachusetts.

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Walpole British  

/ ˈwɔːlˌpəʊl /

noun

1. Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. 1717–97, British writer, noted for his letters and for his delight in the Gothic, as seen in his house Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)

2. Sir Hugh ( Seymour ). 1884–1941, British novelist, born in New Zealand: best known for The Herries Chronicle (1930–33), a sequence of historical novels set in the Lake District

3. Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford. 1676–1745, English Whig statesman. As first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721–42) he was effectively Britain's first prime minister

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Example Sentences

Helen Brocklebank, CEO of British luxury sector body Walpole and on the ball's organising committee, said London's social calendar has "always lacked a big crescendo moment... until now".

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

Schlittler, a 24-year-old rookie for the New York Yankees, hails from Walpole, Mass., a town located less than 20 miles from Fenway Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

More than £30,000 was raised to help build the sauna in the style of a 19th Century bathing machine, which since 2020 has been set up permanently at Walpole Bay.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

The first prime minister of Britain, Robert Walpole, went to Eton College.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024

Walpole considered him "the first painter of his age, one whose works will charm in any age."

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.