Clarence

Originally a ducal title of the English and British royal family, believed to originate from the town of Clare, Suffolk, although it has also been associated with Italian Chiarenza, Clarentza, &c., a former fortress and settlement in the medieval Frankish Principality of Achaea in Greece.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæɹəns/

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Clarence

1. A ducal title which has been traditionally awarded to junior members of the English and British royal families
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:

     Warwick. Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester;
     And George, of Clarence; Warwick, as ourself,
     Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.
     Richard. Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester,
     For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.

2. An English surname.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1847 William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, W. Orr July-December 1847, page 61 ( "The Aristocracy of Names"):

     There is one of the novels of Miss Edgeworth - we forget which - in which a gentleman of the name of Harvey figures as a hero. Harvey! Only fancy John, Peter, or William Harvey as the hero of a novel! But Miss Edgeworth was too well acquaintanced with the philosophy of names to commit such a blunder: she made the individual Clarence Harvey, and the name has never to this day been objected to even among the female teens.

   • 1973, Agatha Christie, Postern of Fate, page 221:

     Got rather a silly name. Like a hotel. You know, the Royal Clarence. That's his name. Clarence."

4. A placename given to towns in countries settled by the British.
   1. A place in Australia:
      1. A locality in the City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.
      2. The City of Clarence, a local government area in the Greater Hobart area of south-east Tasmania, Australia, named after the Duke of Clarence and a ship with that name.
   2. A settlement in north Canterbury, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Clarence River. [1]
   3. A place in Canada:
      1. A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
      2. A community and former township in the city of Clarence-Rockland, eastern Ontario.
   4. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Button Township, Ford County, Illinois.
      2. A city in Cedar County, Iowa.
      3. A township in Barton County, Kansas
      4. A village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
      5. A township in Calhoun County, Michigan.
      6. A minor city in Shelby County, Missouri.
      7. A town and census-designated place therein, in Erie County, New York.
      8. A census-designated place in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
      9. A ghost town in the town of Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin.
5. A name given to several rivers, including one in France and others in countries settled by the British.
   1. A river in the Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, a tributary of the Lys.
   2. A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which discharges into the Coral Sea, named after the Duke of Clarence,
   3. A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Clarence.

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From English Clarence.

Clarence

1. a male given name from English

Borrowed from English Clarence.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈklaɾens/ [ˈkla.ɾɛns]
• Rhymes: -aɾens
• Syllabification: Cla‧rence

Clarence (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜇᜒᜈ᜔ᜐ᜔)

1. a male given name from English