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English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : habitational name from Banwell in Somerset, named from Old English bana ‘killer’ + wella ‘stream’, ‘spring’.Irish (of Norman origin) : variant of Banville or Bonfield.
Female
Persian/Iranian
(بانو) Persian name BANU means "lady."
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on the slope of a hillside or by a riverbank, from northern Middle English banke (from Old Danish banke). The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’.
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English
English : variant of Banks 1.Edward Bangs of Chichester, England, came to Plymouth Colony on board the ‘Anne’ in 1623; he is believed to have been born in about 1592.
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English
English : topographic name from northern Middle English bank(e) ‘hillside slope’, ‘riverbank’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (see Banks).Scottish : habitational name from Bankier in Stirlingshire.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Polish bankier ‘banker’.German (Bänker) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German banc ‘bench’, ‘counter’ (see Bank).
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Hawaiian
Hawaiian name BANE means "long-awaited child."
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a basket weaver, from Anglo-Norman French banastre ‘basket’ (the result of a Late Latin cross between Gaulish benna and Greek kanistron). The term denoting a stair rail is unconnected with this name; it was not used before the 17th century.
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Hebrew
(×‘Ö¼Ö¸× Ö´×™) Hebrew name derived from the word banah, BANIY means "built." In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including one of David's warriors.
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German
German : from Middle High German ban ‘area (of fields or woods) banned from agricultural or other use’, hence probably a topographic name for someone who lived by such a reserve. See also Banwart.English : of uncertain origin. Reaney suggests that it may be from an unrecorded Old English personal name Banna, or a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker, from Old French bane, banne ‘hamper’, ‘pannier’. Compare French Bane.
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Hungarian
Pet form of Hungarian András, BANDI means "man; warrior."
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named in Old English from bēan ‘beans’ (collective singular) + feld ‘field’, ‘open land’, as for example Benville in Dorset.Irish : variant of the Norman family name Banville (see Bonfield), associated primarily with county Wexford.
Male
English
(×‘Ö¼Ö¸× Ö´×™) Anglicized form of Hebrew Baniy, BANI means "built." In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including one of David's warriors.
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English
English : variant of the English habitational name Bamford or Norman Banville. See also Bonfield.
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English
English : variant of Bannister.The naturalist John Banister (1650–92) was born in Gloucestershire, England, and came to VA in 1678.
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English
English : habitational name of uncertain origin. There is a place so called in Strathclyde region and a Banton House in Lancashire; the present-day concentration of the surname in the Derbyshire area suggests the latter may be the more likely source. In some instances the name may have arisen from a place called Bampton, in particular, one in Cumbria, named with Old English bēam ‘trunk’, ‘beam’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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English
English : unexplained.German : patronymic from a personal name formed with Ban- ‘decree’, ‘command’ or Band- ‘band’, ‘tie’.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German or Middle Low German banc, or Yiddish bank ‘bench’, ‘table’, ‘counter’, in any of various senses, e.g. a metonymic occupational name for anyone whose work required a bench or counter, for example a butcher, baker, court official, or money changer.Danish and Swedish : topographic name from bank ‘(sand)bank’ or a habitational name from a farm named with this word.Danish and Swedish : from bank ‘noise’, hence a nickname for a loud or noisy person. Compare Bang.Danish : habitational name from the German place name Bänkau.English : probably a variant of Banks.Americanized spelling of Polish Bąk, literally ‘horsefly’; perhaps a nickname for an irritating person.Hungarian (Bánk) : from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bán.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English bani ‘bony’, from Old English bÄn ‘bone’. Compare Bain 2.Americanized spelling of south German and Swiss Bä(h)ni, from a pet form of the personal name Bernhard.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Banks 1.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : metonymic occupational name for a standard bearer, from Anglo-Norman French banere ‘flag’, ‘ensign’ (see Bannerman).German : occupational name for a standard bearer, Middle High German banier, Middle Low German banner, from French bannière ‘flag’, ‘standard’.
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n.
A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
n.
One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
pl.
of Knight banneret
n.
One who banters or rallies.
n.
A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
n.
Alt. of Banshie
n.
The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
n.
A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
n.
The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).
imp. & p. p.
of Banter
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Banter
v. t.
To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
a.
Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
pl.
of Char-a-bancs
v. t.
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
adv.
With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.
v. t.
To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.