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DUN
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English
English : from a diminutive of Dunn.English : habitational name from Downhead in Somerset or Donhead in Wiltshire, both named from Old English dūn ‘hill’, ‘down’ + Old English hēafod ‘head’, ‘end’.Scottish : habitational name from a place in Caithness.
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English
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh, DUNCAN means "brown warrior."
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : topographic name from Middle English dun ‘dark’ + wella ‘stream’, ‘spring’.English (Yorkshire) : from the Old English personal name Dunweald.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Dunster in Somerset, recorded in 1138 as Dunestore ‘craggy pinnacle (Old English torr) of a man named Dun(n)’.Henry Dunster emigrated to MA in 1640 from Bury, Lancashire, England, and was made the first president of Harvard College (1640–54) almost immediately upon arrival in MA.
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Russian
(ДунÑша) Pet form of Russian Avdotya, DUNYASHA means "good-seeming."
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Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a place in Perthshire, recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.English : patronymic from Dunn.Irish : variant of Downing.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dunnock, a nickname from Old English dunnoc ‘hedge sparrow’.
Female
Russian
(ДунÑ) Pet form of Russian Avdotya, DUNYA means "good-seeming."
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English
English : habitational name from Dunsford in Devon or Dunsforth in West Yorkshire, both named from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Dunn (see Dunn) + Old English ford ‘ford’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dunstan.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name Dunstan, composed of Old English dunn ‘dark’, ‘brown’ + stÄn ‘stone’. This name was borne by a 10th-century archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized.English : habitational name from Dunstone in Devon, named from Old English DunstÄnestÅ«n ‘settlement of Dunstan’ (as in 1). The surname is still chiefly common in Devon, but there are places in other parts of the country with similar names but different etymologies (e.g. Dunstan in Northumbria, Dunston in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire), which may possibly have contributed to the surname.Scottish : partly perhaps the same as 1, but there is a place named Dunstane in Roxburghshire, which may also be a source of the surname.
Female
Slavic
Slavic name DUNJA means "quince."
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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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Vietnamese
Vietnamese name DUNG means "brave, heroic."
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Dunnington in East Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Dunna + -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dunaway.
Male
English
Pet form of English Duncan, DUNKY means "brown warrior."
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English
English : variant of Dunwell 1.
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Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a now forgotten place called Dundemore in Fife.English : habitational name from Dunsmoor in Devon or from an old district of Warwickshire called Dunsmore (preserved in Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Stretton-on-Dunsmore); both are named from the Old English personal name Dunn(a) ‘dark’ + mÅr ‘moor’.A Scottish family of this name was established in County Antrim, northern Ireland, in the early 17th century. From there they emigrated in 1723 to Londonderry, NH (now called Windham).
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : probably a patronymic from Dunn 2 or 4. Compare Donson.
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English
English : variant spelling of Barrett.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Sunshine
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English
English : patronymic from Beal.
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Christian, Finnish, Indian, Latin, Swedish
Blessed
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Hindu
Charioteer of Partha Lord Krishna, Arjunas charioteer Krishna
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Arabic, Muslim
Indispensible
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Arabic
Strong Men
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Hindu, Indian
Lord Shiva; Love of God; Brave
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Biblical
Hasting, a hill, from a hill.
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Muslim
Small plant
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a.
Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.
n.
A fork for tossing dung.
a.
Somewhat like a dunce.
n.
One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.
n.
The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.
v. t.
To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
n.
The realm or domain of dunces.
n.
One who duns; a dunner.
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A yard where dung is collected.
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A heap of dung.
imp. & p. p.
of Dung
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dung
n.
See Dunderhead.
n.
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
a.
Like a dunce; duncish.
a.
Inclined to a dun color.
v. t.
To shut up in a dungeon.
v. t.
To manure with dung.
n.
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
n.
A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.