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HOLLY
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English and French
English and French : occupational name for a brothelkeeper, Middle English, Old French holier, hollier (a dissimilated variant of horier ‘pimp’, agent noun from hore, hure ‘whore’, of Germanic origin). It was probably also used as an abusive nickname.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly grove or conspicuous holly tree, from a derivative of Middle English holi(e), holin ‘holly (tree)’ (from Old English hold(g)n).
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English (chiefly southern) and Dutch
English (chiefly southern) and Dutch : topographic name for a dweller in a hollow (see Hole).English (chiefly southern) : topographic name for a dweller by a holly tree or on an island, from Middle English holm (see Holme) + man.
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English
English : habitational name from Holmer in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire, both named with Old English hol ‘hollow’ + mere ‘pool’.English : topographic name for someone who lived either on a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams or where holly grew, from a derivative of Middle English holm (see Holm 1 and 2).Swedish, Danish, and North German (Schleswig-Holstein) : topographic name for someone who lived on an island (see Holm).
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name from Middle English holin, holi(e) ‘holly tree’. Compare Hollen.
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Dutch and North German (Hülse)
Dutch and North German (Hülse) : topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, Middle Low German huls, hüls.English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Cheshire, recorded in the mid 13th century in the forms Holes, Holis, and Holys. This probably represents a Middle English plural of Old English holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, variant of Hollen.German : habitational name from any of several places so named.
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South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from places called Holling or Hollingen.English, northern Irish, and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English holin ‘holly’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Irish, Jamaican
To Prick; Holly Grove; Shrub with Red Berries; Evergreen
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Australian, British, English
Form of Holly; Holly Grove
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English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modern English holly (see Hollis).English and Scottish : topographic name or habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’, Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1).Danish and Swedish : variant of Holm 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
The Holly Bush
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived among holly trees, from Middle English holins, a plural form from Old English hollegn ‘holly’.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : habitational name, probably from a lost place, Holmherst in Smarden, Kent; Holnest in Dorset is another possibility. Both are named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’.English (Kent) : reduced form of Holderness.
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Irish
Irish : part-translation of Gaelic Mac Cuilinn (see McCullen) in County Kerry, and in Ulster sometimes a variant of McQuillan, also an Anglicized form of Mac Cuilinn. It is rarely of English origin.English : variant spelling of Holley.Possibly an altered spelling of Czech or Slovak Holý (see Holy).
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Northern English, German, and Scandinavian
Northern English, German, and Scandinavian : topographic name for someone who lived on an island, in particular a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams, Middle English, Middle Low German holm, Old Norse holmr, or a habitational name from a place named with this element. The Swedish name is often ornamental.English : topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, from Middle English holm, a variant of holin ‘holly’, or possibly a habitational name from places called Holme (Dorset and West Yorkshire) or Holne (Devon), named with this word.
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English
English : variant spelling of Hollifield.
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English and Irish
English and Irish : habitational name from places in Cheshire and Lancashire called Hollingworth, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.Jewish (American) : presumably an Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
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English (mainly central)
English (mainly central) : topographic name for someone who lived where holly trees grew, from Middle English holi(n)s, plural of holin, holi(e) (Old English hole(g)n).
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’; this was the name of a bardic family associated with the Maguires of Fermanagh, also Anglicized as Oswell, Oswald.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Houssaye in Seine-Maritime, so called from a collective noun from Old French hous ‘holly’.English : nickname for a woman who was mistress of her own household, from Middle English husewif (a compound of Old English hūs ‘house’ + wīf ‘woman’). It was not until the 17th century that this word acquired pejorative connotations.
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English (northern)
English (northern) : habitational name from a lost place in County Durham called Hollingside or Holmside, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + sīde ‘hillside’, ‘slope’; there is a Hollingside Lane on the southern outskirts of Durham city. In some cases it may be from Hollinhead in Lancashire, so named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + hēafod ‘headland’, ‘ridge’.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Lovely Prince
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Muslim
Pure
Female
English
English form of Old French Plaisance, PLEASANCE means "pleasant."
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American, Australian, Chinese, Danish, German
God's Gracious Gift
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Tamil
Nobel
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Tamil
Love and kindness, Analytical, Logical
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Irish Latin
noble.
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Muslim
Lamp. Light.
Male
Hebrew
(×™Ö°×”ï‹×©×‚וּעַ) Hebrew name YEHOWSHUWA means "God is salvation." In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including the leader of the Israelites after Moses died. Jehoshua and Joshua are Anglicized forms.
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Egyptian African
Happy.
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A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.
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A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea.
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A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.
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The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.
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A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
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A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
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The holm oak. See 1st Holm.
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A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
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The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
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A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
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Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the holly (Ilex), and allied plants; as, ilicic acid.
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A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.
adv.
Wholly.
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The bitter principle of the holly.