whitney

1. 1.

   United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

   SynonymsEli Whitney

   Broaderinventormanufacturer
2. 2.

   the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)

   SynonymsMount Whitney

   Broadermountain peak

   Part ofSierra Nevada

Other forms of whitney

plural

whitneys·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whitney

What does whitney mean?

whitney means "United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whitney?

whitney has 2 syllables: whit-ney. The stress falls on "whit". In IPA it is /ˈwɪtni/.

What is another word for whitney?

Close synonyms include Eli Whitney, Mount Whitney. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whitney a common word?

whitney is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.