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What does Riley mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Riley? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A surname​ of Irish origin, variant of Reilly.
  2. An English habitational surname​ from Ryley in Lancashire, from Old English ryge (“rye”) +leah (“clearing, meadow”).
  3. A manufacurer of British motorcars (1907-1969) named after William Riley Jr.
  4. A male given name, transferred use of the surnames since the nineteenth century.
  5. A female given name used since the 1990s.
Name
  1. A male or female given name of English, Gaelic, Irish, Irish Gaelic and Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Irish Gaelic: Valiant. Old English: A Rye meadow. A boy or girl's name.
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Riley nodded, then stopped at the stall of a black mare with a white star on her forehead.
Riley lists all the calm, logical, perfectly justified reasons that she's angry.
Riley says that few of those students are Hispanics or African Americans and he wants to see the numbers doubled.
Riley slowly made her way to the bar greeting various friends and classmates with smiles and brief hellos.
She racked the mike and went back to where Riley lay pale and still on the wet tarmac.
Eleonore Riley is sitting in her favourite chair, a small knot of people around her.

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