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DEAR
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English
English : metonymic nickname for someone with large lips or with some deformity of the lips, from Middle English lippe (Old English lippa).English : perhaps from a Middle English personal name, Leppe or Lippe, apparently a short form of an Old English personal name formed with Lēof- ‘dear’, such as Lēofsige, Lēofstan.German : from a pet form of the personal name Philipp (see Philip).
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Leugar, Levegar, Old English LÄ“ofgÄr, composed of the elements lÄ“of ‘dear’ + gÄr ‘spear’.Gallician and Spanish : habitational name from any of several places in Galicia called Lugar, from lugar ‘place’ ‘village’, or a topographic name from this word.
Female
Scottish
Variant spelling of Scottish Diorbhorguil, DEARBHFHORGHAILL means "true testimony."
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English
English : unexplained.Godfrey Dearborn (baptized September 24, 1603 in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England) came to North America in 1639 and settled in Hampton, NH, where he died on February 4, 1686.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name, Derman (Old English Dēormann), meaning either ‘beloved man’ or ‘spirited man’ (from dēor ‘wild creature’). See Dear 1.Variant of Irish Dearmond.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Diermann or Thiermann, which derive from short forms of the personal name Dietrich or perhaps from Middle High German tier ‘animal’, ‘game’ + man ‘man’ and thus denote a game or venison dealer.
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English
English : from the Middle English female personal name Loveday, Old English Lēofdæg, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + dæg ‘day’.English : nickname for someone who had some particular association with a ‘loveday’. According to medieval custom this was a day set aside for the reconciliation of enemies and amicable settlement of disputes.
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English
English : variant spelling of Deary.
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English
English : habitational name from the place in Bedfordshire (named in Old English as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the (river) Lea’), or, more plausibly in view of the pattern of distribution, from Luton in Devon (near Teignmouth), named in Old English as ‘Lēofgifu’s settlement’ (from an Old English female personal name composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + gifu ‘gift’). A further possible source of the name is Luton in Kent, named as the ‘settlement of Lēofa’.
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English
English : patronymic from Dear 1.Americanized spelling of German Diering, a variant of Döring (see Doering).
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English
English : from an unattested Old English personal name Lēofhering, Lēofring ‘son of Lēofhere’, a personal name composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + here ‘army’.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Lovin, Old English Lēofhūn, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + hūn ‘bear cub’.English : habitational name from the city of Louvain in Belgium (Dutch Leuven).
Female
Irish
Irish Gaelic name DEARBHLA means "true poet."
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, named from Old Norse hlÃf ‘protection’, ‘shelter’ (or an unrecorded Old English cognate) + Old English Ä“g ‘island’.English (chiefly Lancashire) : possibly in a few cases from an Old English personal name composed of the lÄ“of ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + sige ‘victory’.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name Lyfing, Old English Lēofing, based on lēof ‘dear’.Swedish : apparently an ornamental name formed from the place-name element lov-, meaning unknown, + the suffix -ing (see Arning).
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman).Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut ‘people’, or possibly liub ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + man ‘man’.Americanized form of German Leimann, Americanized form of Leinemann, habitational name for someone from Leine in Pomerania, or for someone who lived by either of two rivers called Leine, near Hannover and in Saxony.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Dere, Old English Dēora, in part a short form of various compound names formed with dēore ‘dear’, in part a byname meaning ‘beloved’, or dēor ‘brave’, ‘bold’.English : nickname from Middle English dere, Old English dēor ‘wild animal’, or from the adjective of the same form, meaning ‘wild’, ‘fierce’. By the Middle English period the adjective was falling out of use, and the noun was beginning to be restricted to the sense of modern English deer, so that this may be the sense behind the surname in some cases.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : unexplained; in the UK, it occurs more frequently as Liptrot, and according to Harrison is from a Germanic personal name composed of liob ‘dear’ + trūt ‘beloved’. It seems to be a comparatively recent importation into the UK.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place near Edenfield named Dearden, from Old English dēor ‘beast’, ‘deer’ + denu ‘valley’.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Loverun, Old English Lēofrūn, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’ + rūn ‘rune’.
Female
Scottish
Variant spelling of Scottish Dearbhfhorghaill, DEARBHORGHIL means "true testimony."
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adv.
Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
n.
A dear; a darling.
n.
Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
n.
Dear; beloved.
n.
Same as Deary.
superl.
Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.
n.
A dear one; a sweetheart.
n.
A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
adv.
Dearly; at a high price.
adv.
At what price; how dear.
superl.
Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.
a.
Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
n.
The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
superl.
Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
interj.
God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body).
n.
An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
n.
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
adv.
In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
n.
One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
superl.
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.