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BRAD
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English
English : topographic name from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + weg ‘way’, ‘track’, or a habitational name from a place so named, notably Bradway in South Yorkshire. See also Broadway.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire, Devon, Essex, Suffolk, South Yorkshire, and elsewhere named Bradford, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + feld ‘open country’.
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English (Essex)
English (Essex) : variant of the topographic name Broady ‘broad island’ or ‘broad enclosure’.variant of Irish Brady.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from Bradbourne in Derbyshire or Brabourne in Kent, both named with Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + burna ‘stream’.
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English
English surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Bradain, BRADEN means "descendant of Bradán," hence "salmon."
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Somerset named Bradney, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ (dative -an) + Ä“g ‘island’.
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English : probably a habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire and Norfolk named Bradenham, from Old English brÄd (dative -an) ‘broad’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’, ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
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Irish
Old Irish Gaelic name BRADÃN means "salmon."
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English
English : topographic name for someone living by a notable broad oak, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + Äc ‘oak’, or a habitational name from a minor place so named, such as Broad Oak in Symondsbury, Dorset. Braddock in Cornwall (Brodehoc in Domesday Book) may have this origin; the second element may however be Old English hÅc ‘hook of land’, ‘hill spur’.
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English : habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in West Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times.
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Irish surname transferred to unisex forename use, derived from an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Brádaigh, BRADY means "descendant of Brádach," hence "large-chested."
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English (mainly Somerset)
English (mainly Somerset) : habitational name from Bradnor in Herefordshire, so named with Old English brÄd ‘broad’ (dative -an) + Åra ‘hill slope’.Possibly an altered spelling of the South German surname Brettner, an occupational name for someone who cut shingles or boards, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bret ‘board’, or in some cases perhaps a habitational name for someone from Bretten in Baden.
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English (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight)
English (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) : habitational name from a place on the Isle of Wight named Brading, from Old English brerd ‘hillside’ + -ingas ‘dwellers at’, i.e. ‘(settlement of) the dwellers on the hillside’.
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English
English : habitational name from an unidentified or lost place; perhaps a reduced form of Bradbury.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places called Bradshaw, for example in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + sceaga ‘thicket’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone living by a Roman road or other great highway, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + strÇ£t ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (see Street), or habitational name from some minor place named with these elements.The poet Anne Bradstreet (1612–72) was born Anne Dudley, probably in Northampton, England. She and her husband Simon Bradstreet came to MA with Winthrop in 1630. Simon (1603–97) came from an old Suffolk family. He served in various public offices and was governor of MA from 1679 to 1686 and again in 1686–92.
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English : habitational name from any of the many places throughout England named Bradley, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’.Scottish : habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire.Irish (Ulster) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Brolcháin.
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English
English : habitational name from a place named Bradwell, of which there are examples in Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Somerset, Suffolk, and elsewhere, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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English
Short form of English names beginning with Brad-, from Old English brád, BRAD means "broad."
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English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places so called, in several counties, all first recorded fairly late. The etymology is generally Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + burh ‘fort’ (see Bury), but Bradbury in County Durham is recorded in Old English as Brydbyrig, the first element probably being Old English bred ‘board’. This is probably also the first element in Bradbury, Cheshire.
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Arabic, Muslim
Honour; Esteem; Regard; Affection
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Muslim
One black and ill-shaped, A
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Australian, Greek, Indonesian
Follower of Dionysius; Greek God of Wine
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Tamil
Succeed
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Indian
The guide
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Australian, Biblical
Which Rolls or Overturns
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Indian
Dearly loved.
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English
English : occupational name from Middle English thressher ‘thresher’, a derivative of Old English þerscan, þrescan, þryscan ‘to thresh’.Translated form of German Drescher.
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Russian
(СеваÑтьÑн) Russian form of Greek Sebastianos, SEVASTIAN means "from Sebaste," a town in Asia Minor.Â
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Indian
Self Respect of Nation Culture
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n.
A brad, or nail without a head.
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The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.
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A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
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A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.
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Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
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A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.
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A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.
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Same as Bridoon.