Definitions for Harry
ˈhær ihar·ry

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provokeverb

   annoy continually or chronically

   "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

2. harry, ravageverb

   make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

GCIDE(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Harrynoun

   Harold or Henry; a nickname.

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. harryverb

   To bother; to trouble.

   We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.

2. Harrynoun

   A male given name from the Germanic languages, also used as a pet form of Henry and Harold.

   Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I; / But Harry lives that shall convert those tears / By number into hours of happiness.

3. Harrynoun

   A patronymic surname.

4. Etymology: Medieval English spoken form of Henri.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To Harryverb

   Etymology: harer, French.

   1. To teaze; to hare; to ruffle.

   Thou must not take my former sharpness ill.
   —— I repent me much
   That I so harry’d him. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

   2. In Scotland it signifies to rob, plunder, or oppress: as, one harried a nest; that is, he took the young away: as also, he harried me out of house and home; that is, he robbed me of my goods, and turned me out of doors. See To Harrow.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Harryverb

   to strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land

2. Harryverb

   to agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass

3. Harryverb

   to make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Harry

   har′i, v.t. to plunder: to ravage: to destroy: to harass:—pr.p. harr′ying; pa.p. harr′ied.—n. Harr′ier, one who, or that which, harries: a kind of hawk so named from its harrying or destroying small animals.—Harrying, or Harrowing, of hell, the spoiling of hell, the delivery by Christ, upon His descent into hell after the crucifixion, of the souls of patriarchs and prophets there held in bondage by Satan (1 Pet. iii. 19)—a favourite subject of Christian art, and of our own medieval writers of Mysteries. [A.S. hergian, from A.S. here, gen. herg-es, an army; Ger. heer.]

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1. Harry

   (See Thomas and Richard.)

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1. • Destroy

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Harry' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2212

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Harry' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3843

How to pronounce Harry?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Harry in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Harry in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Harry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Harry in a Sentence

1. Prince Charles:

   I think Prince Charles would be flexible because the core focus would be on William and his family, and Meghan and Harry are further down the totem pole.

2. Jemima Khan:

   [ The ] last time I met him he was a boy, along with Prince Harry, and they came with their mother to my ex-mother-in-law's house.

3. William Makepeace Thackeray:

   'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

4. Reverend Michael Bruce Curry:

   The love that has brought and will bind Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle together has its source and origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness, and so we celebrate and pray for them today.

5. Thomas Markle:

   . I sort of disagreed with that, but I still like Harry.

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