Associations to the word «Whitney»

Wiktionary

WHITNEY, proper noun. A habitational surname​.
WHITNEY, proper noun. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

Dictionary definition

WHITNEY, noun. United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825).
WHITNEY, noun. The highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope