Jellicoe

American  

[jel-i-koh] / ˈdʒɛl ɪˌkoʊ /

noun

1. John Rushworth 1st Earl, 1859–1935, British admiral.

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Jellicoe British  

/ ˈdʒɛlɪˌkəʊ /

noun

1. John Rushworth, 1st Earl Jellicoe. 1859–1935, British admiral, who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916), which incapacitated the German fleet for the rest of World War I

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Example Sentences

This private garden was also designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and is considered to be his greatest design.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2020

To borrow Emily Nussbaum’s taxonomy, Sally is a hummingbird, a class of female characters, who like Leslie Knope or Enlightened’s Amy Jellicoe are “idealistic feminine dreamers whose personalities are irritants.”

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2018

These are questions that Beatriz — like Amy Jellicoe, the self-help poster girl played by Laura Dern on “Enlightened” — takes incredibly seriously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2017

As Winston Churchill had said, Sir John Jellicoe, the admiral who led the Royal Navy until 1916, was "the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon".

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2014

We were standing at the corner of Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road, right in the heart of Johannesburg’s wealthy, white suburbia, and there were no minibuses.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah