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CHUR
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English
English : habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’, or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlÄw ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : variant spelling of Laughton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic surname for someone who lived near a church. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakÅn (dÅma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’.Translation of German Kirch.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Cumbria, first recorded in 1220 in its present form. There is a chapel of St. Martin here, and the valley (see Dale) may be named from this. Alternatively, there may have been a landowner here called Martin, and the church dedication may be due to popular association of his name with that of the saint.
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English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : habitational name from Madron in Cornwall, named for the patron saint of its church, St. Madernus.
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English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : habitational name from a place named with Cornish lan ‘church’. In England this surname is now found chiefly in the southern counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire, and Berkshire; it has no doubt moved there from Cornwall.
Boy/Male
British, English
Lives at the Church Hill
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English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
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English
English : habitational name from Kirkshaw in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, so named from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + shaw ‘grove’. There are two minor places in West Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may be of the same origin and may also lie behind the surname, but on the other hand they may themselves derive from the surname. In some cases the name may be topographic for someone who lived near the ‘church grove’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crūg ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a church, from Middle English chirche (see Church) + man.Possibly a translation of German Kirchmann (see Kirchman).
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + býr ‘settlement’.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Ciarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick.
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Irish
Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maoil Fhábhail ‘descendant of Maolfhábhail’, a personal name meaning ‘fond of movement or travel’.English : from the common French place name Laval, from Old French val ‘valley’. This is also a Huguenot name (with the same etymology), taken to England by Etienne-Abel Laval, a minister of the French church in Castle Street, London, around 1730.French : habitational name from Lavelle in Puy-de-Dôme or various other, smaller places so named.
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English
English : habitational name from Kirkley in Northumberland, found in early records as Crekellawe. The element Crekel is from Celtic crÅ«g ‘hill’ + Old English hyll ‘hill’, to which the tautologous addition (Old English hlÄ â€˜hill’, ‘mound’) was later made. There is also a Kirkley in Suffolk, named from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’, which may also have contributed to the surname.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria, recorded in 1095 as Kircabikendala ‘village with a church in the valley of the Kent river’.From an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted’, ‘high’ + delw ‘image’, ‘effigy’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably an occupational name for someone who worked at a ‘church house’ (Middle English chirche + h(o)us), a building, usually adjoining the church, which served as a parish room.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : most probably a variant of Churchill, or possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Boy/Male
American, British, English, Jamaican
Lives at the Church Hill; Church on a Hill
Boy/Male
English
Lives at the church hill.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : local name for someone who lived in a small cottage or temporary dwelling, Middle English logge (Old French loge, of Germanic origin). The term was used in particular of a cabin erected by masons working on the site of a particular construction project, such as a church or cathedral, and so it was probably in many cases equivalent to an occupational name for a mason. Reaney suggests that one early form, atte Logge, might sometimes have denoted the warden of a masons’ lodge.Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential U.S. senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a churchyard, Middle English chircheheye literally ‘church enclosure’.
CHUR
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Boy/Male
Indian
Greeting, Salutation, Little star
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Eastall, topographic name for someone who lived and worked ‘at the east hall’.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil
Name of a River in India
Biblical
eye, or fountain, of the goat, or of happiness
Girl/Female
Hindu
Boy/Male
Tamil
Intelligent
Male
Egyptian
, a king of the XVIIth dynasty.
Boy/Male
Indian
The mighty
Boy/Male
Tamil
Creation
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Unefficient; Capable
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CHUR
a.
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
n.
The state of being a low-churchman.
n.
The principles of the high-church party.
a.
Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
n.
The state of being a high-churchman.
n.
One who holds high-church principles.
imp. & p. p.
of Churn
a.
Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
n.
The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
a.
Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.
n.
The principles of the low-church party.
a.
Churlish; rough; selfish.
v. t.
To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
n.
The act of one who churns.
n.
One who holds low-church principles.
a.
Rude; churlish; violent.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Churn
v. i.
To perform the operation of churning.
adv.
In a churlish manner.