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Irish (chiefly County Down)
Irish (chiefly County Down) : variant of Prey.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English pre(y), Old French pree ‘meadow’, or a habitational name from any of the minor places deriving their name from this word, of which there are several examples in Surrey.
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English and northern Irish (county Down)
English and northern Irish (county Down) : probably a variant of Gillard.French and Swiss French : from a derivative of Gillier, from the Germanic personal name Giselher, composed of gīsil ‘hostage’, ‘pledge’, ‘noble offspring’ (see Giesel) + heri ‘army’.
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English (Sussex and Kent)
English (Sussex and Kent) : probably a variant of Downer.
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English
English : habitational name from the district so called near Liverpool, consisting of Uplitherland and Downlitherland. The place name is derived from Old Norse hlÃðar, genitive of hlÃð ‘slope’ + land ‘land’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from any of three places so named. Hingston, Cornwall and Hingston Down in Moretonhampstead, Devon are both named from the Old English byname Hengest (or from Old English hengest ‘stallion’) + Old English dÅ«n ‘hill’, while Hingston in Bigbury, Devon is named from Old English hind ‘hind’ + stÄn ‘stone’.
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English
English : habitational name from Durham, a city in northeastern England, named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ (see Down 1) + Old Norse holmr ‘island’.
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English
English : habitational name from Down Hatherley and Up Hatherley in Gloucestershire, or from Hatherleigh in Devon, all named from Old English haguþorn ‘hawthorn’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
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English
English : habitational name from a place such as Downend in Gloucestershire, which is named from Old English dūn ‘down’, ‘low hill’ + ende ‘end’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
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English
English : patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.English : variant (plural) of Down.
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English
English : patronymic from Fellow, from Middle English felagh, felaw late Old English fēolaga ‘partner’, ‘shareholder’ (Old Norse félagi, from fé ‘fee’, ‘money’ + legja to lay down). In Middle English the term was used in the general sense of a companion or comrade, and the surname thus probably denoted a (fellow) member of a trade guild. Compare Fear 1.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Dunton. Most (for example those in Bedfordshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire) are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ (see Down 1) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Buckinghamshire probably has as its first element the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd).
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English, French, German, Polish, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán)
English, French, German, Polish, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán) : from the Christian baptismal name Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
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English
English : from Middle English fether ‘feather’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a trader in feathers and down, a maker of quilts, or possibly a maker of pens. Feathermongers are recorded from the 13th century onwards. In some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname denoting a very light person or perhaps a person of no account.Americanized form of German Feder.
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English and German
English and German : from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Martin or Marta.English and French : metonymic occupational name for a smith or a nickname for a forceful person, from Old French martel ‘hammer’ (Late Latin martellus). Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, gained his byname from the force with which he struck down his enemies in battle.Spanish and Portuguese : from Portuguese martelo, Old Spanish martel ‘hammer’ (Late Latin martellus), or an Iberianized form of the Italian cognate Martello.
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English
English : habitational name from the villages of East and West Ilsley on the Berkshire Downs, named from Old English Hild (a short form of various personal names containing the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places called Greenhow, in North and West Yorkshire, or from Gerna in the parish of Downham, Lancashire, all of which are named with Old English grÄ“ne ‘green’ + hÅh ‘mound’ (or the cognate Old Norse haugr).
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Irish
Irish : sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó DuinnÃn (see Dineen).English : patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.Sir George Downing (1623–84), baronet, member of Parliament, and ambassador to the Netherlands in the time of both Cromwell and King Charles II, was the second graduate of the first class (1642) at Harvard College. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple and his second wife, Lucy Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop. The family emigrated to New England in 1638 and settled at Salem, MA.
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English
English : topographic name for a downland dweller, from Old English dūn ‘down’, ‘low hill’. See also Downer.English : variant of Dunn 2.Scottish : possibly a habitational name from Doune in Perthshire.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Downham, in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lancashire, and Northumberland. The last two are named from Old English dÅ«n, dative plural dÅ«num ‘(at) the hills’, while the others are named from Old English dÅ«n ‘hill’ + hÄm ‘homestead’.English : Variant spelling of Dunham.
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English
English : variant (plural) of Down.Irish (Counties Clare and Limerick) : reduced Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Dubháin (see Doane).
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Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
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Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
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A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
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A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
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Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
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Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.
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Alt. of Swans-down
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Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
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Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
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The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
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Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
v. t.
To weigh or press down.
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Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
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Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
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Alt. of Downwards
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Alt. of Downtrodden
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Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
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From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
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The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
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Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.