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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley