Gillette

English

Alternative forms

• Gillet, Gillett

Etymology

Alternative form of Gillett

• Razor brand: invented by American businessman King C. Gillette.

Proper noun

Gillette (countable and uncountable, plural Gillettes)

1. A surname, variant of Gillett.
2. A placename
   1. A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
   4. A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
      • 1979, United States Department of Commerce, “Jobs Through Economic Development”, in Boomtown Problems:

        In those 18 years, Gillette, a small town in northeastern Wyoming, has changed from a group of houses and a railroad depot servicing a ranching and farming community to a mining boomtown, growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year.

      • 2011, Anne Marie Chaker, “Should Junk Food Be Sold In Schools?”, in School Diet and Exercise Programs May Go Too Far, pages 70–1:

        Gillette is a dusty, bustling coal-mining center in north-eastern Wyoming, bisected by a railroad operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which delivers coal to such cities as Chicago and Centralia, Wash.

      • 2014, Monica Moses, “American Craft”, in Creative Outliers, page 6:

        By one estimate, there are as many full-time craft artists in the United States as there are people in the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Never heard of Gillette? Well, no wonder; like the universe of craft artists, it has a relatively small population.

3. A brand of razor blade
   • 2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River, page 22:

     In the men's room he watched a man about his own age pathetically trying to shave a five-day beard with a rusty Gillette razor he had probably found in a trash bin.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gillette.

Descendants

• → Czech: žiletka
• → Ewe: žilett
• → Indonesian: silet
  • → Ternate: silet
• → Polish: żyletka
• → Portuguese: gilete
• → Turkish: jilet

See also

• Gilet
• Gilett
• Gilette
• Gillet
• Gillett

 

French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Gillette ?

1. a surname