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English and French
English and French : probably an altered form of French Pons, a habitational name from places so named in Bourgogne and Franche-Comté.
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English
English : variant spelling of Bourne.French : nickname for a person with only one eye or with a squint, from Old French borgne ‘squinting’, of unknown origin.In some cases, possibly a shortening of the Dutch surname van den Borne, a habitational name for someone from Born in the province of Limburg (Netherlands) or from a place associated with the watercourse of the Borre river in French Flanders.
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English
English : variant of Bourne.
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English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : (of Norman origin) from the Old French personal name Burdo (oblique case Burdon), probably of Germanic origin, but uncertain meaning.English (chiefly West Country) : nickname for a pilgrim or one who carried a pilgrim’s staff, Middle English, Old French bourdon.English (chiefly West Country) : habitational name from any of various places called Burdon or Burden. Burden in West Yorkshire and Great Burdon in County Durham are named with Old English burh ‘stronghold’, ‘fortified place’ + dūn ‘hill’; Burdon in Tyne and Wear is named with Old English b̄re ‘byre’ + denu ‘valley’.
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French
French : possibly a derivative of Occitan burdir ‘to sport or amuse oneself’ or a variant of Bordeau.Southern French : variant of Bourdin, a nickname or metonymic occupational name, from medieval Latin burdinus ‘mule’, ‘hinny’.Russian and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : see Burda.English : variant spelling of Burdon.
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English
English : variant of Bourne.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two villages in Wiltshire called Ogbourne, from the Old English personal name Oc(c)a + Old English burna ‘stream’, ‘creek’ (see Bourne).
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Shakespearean
King Henry V' Duke of Bourbon.
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English
English : regional name for someone from Burgundy, Old French Bourgogne (see Burgoyne).Swiss German (Bürgin) : from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart).
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English
English : habitational name from places in Somerset and Dorset (now part of Bournemouth), probably named with Old English langet ‘long strip of ground’, ‘long ridge’ + dūn ‘hill’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, Old English burna, burne ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example Bourn in Cambridgeshire or Bourne in Lincolnshire. This word was replaced as the general word for a stream in southern dialects by Old English brÅc (see Brook) and came to be restricted in meaning to a stream flowing only intermittently, especially in winter.
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Shakespearean
King Richard III' Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Durham and Yorkshire, so called from Old English scīr ‘bright’ + burna ‘stream’. (In southern English dialects, burna became modern bourne, and Sherborne in Dorset is one of several places so called.)Americanized form of French Charbon (see Jarboe) or Charbonneau.
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English, French, and Catalan
English, French, and Catalan : from a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown, Brun).German : from a personal name (Brunhard) composed with Old High German, Old Saxon brūm ‘brown’. But this is also a Waldensian name in Germany, in which case it is of French origin, see 1.A Brunet from the Charente Maritime region of France is documented in Montreal in 1663, with the secondary surname Belhumeur. Another, from the Perche region, is documented in Quebec city in 1667, with the secondary surname Létang. Other secondary surnames recorded are Bourbonnais, La Sablonnière, and Saint-André. A Calvinist from La Rochelle, with the secondary surname Bonvouloir, is documented in Quebec city in 1698.
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English
English : variant spelling of Burke.
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English
English : regional name for someone from Burgundy (Old French Bourgogne), a region of eastern France having Dijon as its center. The area was invaded by the Burgundii, a Germanic tribe from whom it takes its name, in about ad 480. The duchy of Burgundy, created in 877 by Charles II, King of the West Franks, was extremely powerful in the later Middle Ages, especially under Philip the Bold (1342–1404, duke from 1363).
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English
English : variant of Bourne.
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Scottish
Scottish : occupational name for a bow maker, Older Scots bowar, equivalent to English Bowyer.English and Scottish : from Middle English bur, bour ‘bower’, ‘cottage’, ‘inner room’ (Old English būr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, an occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his private quarters (see Bowerman), or a habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, named Bower or Bowers from this word.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or streams, from the Middle English nominative plural or genitive singular of burne (see Bourne).
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English
English : variant spelling of Bourne.North German, Danish, and Dutch : from Middle Low German born ‘well’, ‘spring’, a topographic name for someone who lived beside a well or spring, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
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African Arabic Muslim
Trustworthy.
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Good
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Norse
A merchant.
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Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Rashness; Purity
Female
Croatian
, love.
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Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Cherished Wish
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Hindu, Indian, Traditional
King
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
One End of Saree which is Free
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Pakistani
Fire
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Cloud
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n.
A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
n.
A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
n.
An old French dance tune in common time.
n.
A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.
n.
The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
v.
Alt. of Bourne
n.
An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
n.
A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
v. i.
To bud. See Bourgeon.
n.
An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
n.
Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.
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An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
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A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.
n.
See Burnoose.
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Alt. of Bourne
n.
See 1st Bourgeois.
a.
Without a bourn or limit.
n.
One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.
n.
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.