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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : probably from a local vernacular derivative of Lucas. However, Reaney posits an Old English personal name, Lugga, from which this name could be derived.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Rhianna, REANNA means "maiden."Â
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English
English : nickname for a provident man, from Middle English readi ‘prepared’, ‘prompt’.Irish : variant of Reddy.Scottish : variant of Reedie.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. Reaney gives it as a variant of Mangnall, which he derives from Old French mangonelle, a war engine for throwing stones. It may alternatively be identical in origin with the German name in 2 below, but there is no evidence of its introduction to Britain as a personal name by the Normans, which is normally the case for English surnames derived from Continental Germanic personal names.German and French : from a Germanic personal name Managwald, composed of the elements manag ‘much’ + wald ‘rule’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Read 1.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ + lavedi ‘lady’. Reaney describes this as an obvious nickname for a philanderer; but perhaps it denoted a man who loved a woman above his social status, given the connotation of high status carried by the word lavedi.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who produced or used malt for brewing, from an agent derivative of Middle English malt ‘malt’, ‘germinated barley’ (Old English mealt).English (of Norman origin) : according to Reaney, a habitational name from some place in France called Maleterre, from Old French male terre ‘bad land’ (Latin mala terra).German : metonymic occupational name for a grain measurer or a maker of grain measures, or for a miller, from Middle High German malter, a measure of grain.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
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English
English : name for someone who was related to an important local personality, from Middle English maugh, maw ‘relative’, especially by marriage (from Old English mÄge ‘female relative’). In the north of England this term was used more specifically to mean ‘brother-in-law’.English : topographic name from Middle English mawe ‘meadow’. Some early forms, such as Sibilla de la Mawe (Suffolk 1275), clearly indicate a topographic origin, by reason of the preposition and article.English : probably also from a Middle English personal name, Mawe, Old English MÄ“awa, perhaps originally a byname from Old English mÇ£w ‘sea mew’, ‘seagull’ (compare Mew).
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from an Old English byname, Red, READ means "red-headed or ruddy-complexioned."Â
Female
Greek
Variant spelling of Greek Rhea, REAH means "ease, flow."
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a dyer or seller of dye, from Middle English mad(d)er ‘madder’ (Old English mædere), a pink to red dye obtained from the roots of the madder plant.German and Dutch (Mader, Mäder) : occupational name for a reaper or mower, Middle High German mÄder, mæder, Middle Dutch mader.French (southwestern and southeastern) : metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
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English
English : patronymic from Master. Reaney notes the medieval example atte Maysters (1327), and suggests this might have denoted someone who lived at a master’s house, a master’s servant or perhaps an apprentice.
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English
English : from Old English LÄ“ofecing, a patronymic from LÄ“ofeca (see Levick 2), or possibly, as Reaney suggests, a late derivative of Lovekin (see Lucken).
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English
English : variant spelling of Reames.
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English (Suffolk) of uncertain derivation;
English (Suffolk) of uncertain derivation; : of uncertain derivation; perhaps from a reduced form of the personal name Dominicus (see Dominick).English (Suffolk) of uncertain derivation; : alternatively, as Reaney proposes, it may be from the Breton personal name Menguy, a compound of men ‘stone’ + ki ‘dog’.
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English
English : occupational name for a mower or reaper of grass or hay, Old English mǣðere. Compare Mead, Mower. Hay was formerly of great importance, not only as feed for animals in winter but also for bedding.English : in southern Lancashire, where it has long been a common surname, it is probably a relatively late development of Madder (see Mader).English : The prominent Mather family of New England were established in America by Richard Mather (1596–1669) in 1635. He was a Puritan clergyman from a well-established family of Lowton, Lancashire, England. After he emigrated, he was in great demand as a preacher, finally settling in Dorchester, MA. His son Increase Mather (1639–1723) was a diplomat and president of Harvard. He married his step-sister Maria Cotton, herself the daughter of an eminent Puritan divine, John Cotton. Their son Cotton Mather (1663–1728) bore both family names. The latter was a minister who is remembered for his part in witchcraft trials, but he was also a man of science and a fellow of the Royal Society in London.
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Scottish
Scottish : nickname for someone with streaks of gray or white hair, from Gaelic riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘grayish’.English : habitational name from either of two places called Reach, in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, from Old English rǣc ‘raised strip of land or other linear feature’ (in the case of the Cambridgeshire name referring to Devil’s Dyke, a post-Roman earthwork).
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English
English : nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English re(a)d ‘red’.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, from an unattested Old English rīed, r̄d ‘woodland clearing’.English : Read in Lancashire, the name of which is a contracted form of Old English rǣghēafod, from rǣge ‘female roe deer’, ‘she-goat’ + hēafod ‘head(land)’; Rede in Suffolk, so called from Old English hrēod ‘reeds’; or Reed in Hertfordshire, so called from an Old English ryhð ‘brushwood’.English : A family called Read were established in America in the early 18th century by John Read, who was born in Dublin, sixth in descent from Sir Thomas Read of Berkshire, England. His son, George Read (1733–98), was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and as a lawyer helped frame the Constitution.
Female
Welsh
Variant spelling of Welsh Rhiannon, REANNON means "great queen."
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Rórdán, REARDEN means "little poet-king."
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a.
Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.
pl.
of Reactionary
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Read
v. i.
To learn by reading.
a.
Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
imp. & p. p.
of Read
n.
One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
v. t.
To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
v. t.
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
v. t.
To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
v. i.
To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
v. i.
To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
v. i.
To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
a.
Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.
v. i.
To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
a.
Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
v.
Reading.
a.
Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
n.
A reactionary.