What is the name meaning of HERB. Phrases containing HERB
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HERB
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German
Modern German form of Old High German Heribert, HERBERT means "bright army."Â
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English (northern Ireland)
English (northern Ireland) : patronymic from a pet form of Herbert.
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English
English : occupational name for an innkeeper, from Middle English, Old French (h)oste ‘host’, ‘guest’.Danish (Høst) : nickname from høst ‘harvest’, ‘autumn’ (see Herbst).French : from Old French ost ‘army’, hence an occupational name for a soldier.Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Austa, meaning ‘east’.German : habitational name from either of two places called Host, near Koblenz and near Bitburg.
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Christian, German
Illustrious Warrior; Army; Bright; Introduced into Britain During the Norman Conquest; Diminutive of Herbert
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English
English : occupational name for a grinder of grain, i.e. a miller, Middle English, Old English grindere, an agent noun from Old English grindan ‘to grind’. Less often it may have referred to someone who ground blades to keep their sharpness or who ground pigments, spices, and medicinal herbs to powder.
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English
English : patronymic from the personal name Herbert.
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English
English : metronymic or patronymic from Ebbe, a pet form of Isabel or Herbert.North German : patronymic from a short form of Ebbert.
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English (chiefly northern Ireland)
English (chiefly northern Ireland) : patronymic from the personal name Herbert. (The change from -er- to -ar- was a common one in Old French and Middle English.)
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English
English short form of German Herbert, HERB means "bright army."
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English
English pet form of German Herbert, HERBIE means "bright army."
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American, Australian, Christian, French, German
Bright; Excellent Army; Ruler; Form of Herbert
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English
English : variant of Herbert.
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English
English : from a short form of Herbert.Dutch : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Herbrecht, composed of the elements hari, heri ‘army’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘illustrious’.
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North German
North German : variant of Harr.English : from a pet form of Herbert.English : nickname from Old English hēarra ‘chief’, ‘lord’.
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Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Herbertus, HERBERTO means "bright army."
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of fennel (Old English finugle, fenol, from Late Latin fenuculum). Fennel was widely used in the Middle Ages as a herb for seasoning. The surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a place where the herb grew or was grown.English : Reaney also identifies this as a derivative of Fitz Neal ‘son of Neal’, citing as an example Fennells Wood, a place name recorded in 1391 as Fenelgrove and named for a Robert FitzNeel (1283).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnghail ‘descendant of Fionnghal’, a personal name composed of the elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + gal ‘valor’.
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English
English : variant of Herbert.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places in England so called. Most of them, as for example those in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (near Gainsborough), Sussex, and West Yorkshire, are named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘enclosure’. The compound was also used in the extended sense of a herb garden and later of a kitchen garden. Laughton near Folkingham in Lincolnshire, however, was probably named as loc-tūn ‘enclosed farm’ (see Lock 2).English : variant spelling of Lawton.
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South German
South German : habitational name from any of several places named Harbach.English : probably from Old French, Middle English herberge ‘hostel’, ‘shelter’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lodgings, or for a servant who worked there.
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English : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lÄd ‘watercourse’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from lÄ“ac ‘leek’ + tÅ«n. Compare Leighton.
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A herbalist.
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Alt. of Herbous
imp. & p. p.
of Herborize
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A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.
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A herbalist.
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Alt. of Herberwe
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Growing into herbs.
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Bearing herbs or vegetation.
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Abounding with herbs.
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Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
n.
A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus.
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A woman that sells herbs.
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of Herb-woman
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Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.
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Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage.
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of Herborize
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One of the Herbivora.
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A small herb.
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The act of herborizing.
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Covered with herbs.