Lichfield

From Old English Liċetfeld, from Latin Letocetum, from a Proto-Brythonic place-name meaning "greywood" (cf. Welsh llwyd + coed), with feld (“field”) added later.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪt͡ʃfiːld/

Lichfield (countable and uncountable)

1. A placename:
   1. A cathedral city in Staffordshire, England.
   2. A local government district of Staffordshire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the city.
   3. A rural settlement in Waikato, New Zealand. ^[1]
2. (countable) A surname.
   • 2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 February 2024:

     Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the "hipster effect" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.

   • 2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 March 2019:

     “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.

3. Misspelling of Litchfield.

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