Wellesley
Americannoun
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Arthur. Wellington, 1st Duke of.
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his brother Robert Colley 1st Marquis, 1760–1842, British statesman and administrator, born in Ireland: governor general of India 1797–1805.
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a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
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Arthur. See (1st Duke of) Wellington 2
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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
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Babson College—the small Wellesley, Mass., school focused on business and entrepreneurship—retained its No. 2 spot from last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025
Dr Chipo Dendere, an assistant professor in Africana studies at Wellesley College in the US, argues that the necessity of "black tax" is rooted in colonialism.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024
But Scheer’s framing, in which a flock of comic and undermining kibitzers descends for the wedding on Marina’s new estate in Wellesley, Mass., is too lightweight to support much content.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2024
He added, on some slow-processed afterthought, that Wellesley College was a very high-class college.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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