Wellesley

[welz-lee]

noun

1. Arthur. Wellington, 1st Duke of.

2. his brother Robert Colley 1st Marquis, 1760–1842, British statesman and administrator, born in Ireland: governor general of India 1797–1805.

3. a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

Wellesley

/ ˈwɛlzlɪ /

noun

1. Arthur. See (1st Duke of) Wellington 2

2. his brother, Richard Colley, Marquis Wellesley. 1760–1842, British administrator. As governor general of Bengal (1797–1805) he consolidated British power in India

Example Sentences

Babson College—the small Wellesley, Mass., school focused on business and entrepreneurship—retained its No. 2 spot from last year.

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He’d purchased the clock in 1999 from a seller on EBay, a New Hampshire dealer who’d picked it up at an estate sale in Wellesley, Mass., for $280.

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She graduated from Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Mass., and attended one year of college at Columbia University before dropping out to get married to neurosurgeon Seth Weingarten.

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“It’s a waiting game that is anxiety-inducing,” said another student at Downtown Magnets High School, a senior who is applying to UC and Cal State campuses, as well as Wellesley College.

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She studied economics and Spanish literature at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, which led her to a job as a research economist for the U.S.

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