Trevor

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛvɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛvə/
• Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Trevor

1. A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
   • 1941, Graham Greene, “The Destructors”, in Collected Stories, Heinemann, page 327:

     He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -

2. A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
3. A community of the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.

Derived terms

• Trev
• Trevor disease
• Trevs

 

See also

• Trefor
• Trevorrow

 

Anagrams

• trover