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English (Oxfordshire, Warwickshire)
English (Oxfordshire, Warwickshire) : patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Gill.
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English (Oxfordshire and West Midlands)
English (Oxfordshire and West Midlands) : unexplained.Swiss German (Trüby) : of uncertain origin; it may have originated as a nickname, from Middle High German trüebe ‘dark’, ‘sad’, ‘troubled’.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Loba, apparently a topographical term meaning perhaps ‘lump’, ‘hill’, the village being situated at the bottom of a hill. There is also a place of the same name in Oxfordshire (recorded in 1208 as Lobbe), but the historical and contemporary distribution of the surname (which is still largely restricted to Devon), makes it unlikely that it ever derived from this place, or from Middle English, Old English lobbe ‘spider’.
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English (Oxfordshire)
English (Oxfordshire) : unexplained.
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Polish
Polish : from the personal name Lew ‘lion’, adopted as a translation of Leon (see Lyon 2).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Lev.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or burial-mound, Old English hlǣw, or a habitational name from Lew in Oxfordshire, named with this word.Chinese : variant of Liu 1.
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English (Oxfordshire)
English (Oxfordshire) : from a personal name based on Old French Otuel.
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English
English : habitational name, either a variant of Madeley (a name common to several places, including one in Shropshire and two in Staffordshire), named in Old English as ‘MÄda’s clearing’, from an unattested byname, MÄda (probably a derivative of mÄd ‘foolish’) + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’; or from Medley on the Thames in Oxfordshire, named in Old English with middel ‘middle’ + Ä“g ‘island’.English : nickname for an aggressive person, from Middle English, Old French medlee ‘combat’, ‘conflict’ (Late Latin misculata).
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English (Oxfordshire) and Dutch
English (Oxfordshire) and Dutch : patronymic from Timm.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Devon, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire named Lynam, from Old English lÄ«n ‘flax’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.Irish : English surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Laidhghneáin (see Linehan).
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English (Oxfordshire)
English (Oxfordshire) : from the personal name Pipkin, a pet form of Philip.
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English
English : habitational name from Lyford in south Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), named in Old English as ‘flax-ford’, from līn ‘flax’ + ford ‘ford’.
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English (Oxfordshire)
English (Oxfordshire) : habitational name from Stirch in Warwickshire.
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English (Oxfordshire)
English (Oxfordshire) : occupational name from Old French cousere ‘tailor’. This name is now well established in Barbados.
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English
English : habitational name from the city of Oxford, named in Old English with ox(e)na (genitive plural of oxa ‘ox’) + ford ‘ford’.
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English (chiefly Oxfordshire)
English (chiefly Oxfordshire) : variant spelling of Hollifield.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name. There is a Lidstone in Oxfordshire, but the concentration of the surname in Devon would suggest that this is not the source.
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English (mainly Oxfordshire and Berkshire)
English (mainly Oxfordshire and Berkshire) : variant of Howes.
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English (Oxford)
English (Oxford) : unexplained.
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English
English : habitational name from places called Merton in London, Devon, Norfolk, and Oxfordshire, named in Old English with mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Compare Marton, Martin 2.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire) and Lancashire, so named from Old English lang, long ‘long’ + worð ‘enclosure’.
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Arabic, Hebrew
Colour of the Earth; Young Deer
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Lobley Gate in West Yorkshire.
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Indian
Excellent, Noble
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Australian, British, Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Italian
Farmer's Son
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American, Anglo, British, Christian, Danish, English, German, Jamaican, Latin, Scottish
To Wander; Nobleman; Leader; Earl; Wanderer
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Muslim
He who cures
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Muslim
Nobility
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American, Australian
Town in the Middle of Hamlets
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English German
A which originated as a rhyming.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Love of Fame
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n.
A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
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One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
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The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.
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One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.
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A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.
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Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.
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A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
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Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
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In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
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The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
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The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
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An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
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A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.
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A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
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A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.
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In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.
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One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite.
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Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
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Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
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A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.