What is the name meaning of READING. Phrases containing READING
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READING
Boy/Male
English
Son of Reed.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Percy. As English names, these are found chiefly in Reading, Berkshire.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Reading
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the county seat of Berkshire, which gets its name from Old English Rēadingas ‘people of Rēad(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English ryding.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from a nickname meaning ‘good’, from Old French bon ‘good’. Compare Bone 1.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Bohon in La Manche, France, of obscure etymology.Dutch : from Middle Dutch bone, boene ‘bean’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bean grower or a nickname for a man of little importance (broad beans having been an extremely common crop in the medieval period), or possibly for a tall thin man (with reference to the runner bean).The renowned American frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was born in Reading, PA, into a Quaker family. His grandfather was a weaver who had emigrated from Exeter in England to Philadelphia in 1717.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Percy. As English names, these are found chiefly in Reading, Berkshire.
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English
English : variant spelling of Reading.German and Dutch : patronymic from any of the Germanic personal names with the first element rÄd ‘counsel’, ‘advice’.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : variant of Sand 1.Scottish : habitational name from Sands in Tulliallan in Fife.Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James (Sandys) Sands (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester Co., NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Reading 1, from the place name + the Middle English suffix -tune ‘settlement’. However, the surname is quite common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and so perhaps a northern place named as the ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Rēad(a)’ is to be sought.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name, from Middle English holy ‘holy’ + oke ‘oak’, for someone who lived near an oak tree with religious associations. This would have been one which formed a marker on a parish boundary and which was a site for a reading from the Scriptures in the course of the annual ceremony of beating the bounds.English : habitational name from the village of Holy Oakes in Leicestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Haliach, and no doubt deriving its name as above, from Old English hÄlig ‘holy’ + Äc ‘oak’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading.Dutch and German : variant of Redding 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : presumably a variant of Reddan or Reading.
READING
READING
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Alfr, ALF means "elf." Compare with other forms of Alf.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
One with Good Heart
Boy/Male
Indian, Sikh
Lots of Love
Girl/Female
Spanish
Spear.
Girl/Female
Spanish
Beautiful.
Male
Hindi/Indian
(धनञà¥à¤œà¤¯) Hindi name DHANANJAY means "winning wealth."
Girl/Female
Muslim
Blessing, Honor, Happiness, Bliss, Felicity
Biblical
same as Barachel
Female
English
Elaborated form of English Jen, JENESSA means "white and smooth."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Revered; Lord Hanuman
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v. t.
To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
n.
A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.
v. t.
To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
n.
The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method.
v.
Reading.
n.
The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
n.
A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.
a.
Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
v. i.
To learn by reading.
n.
Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
v. t.
To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
a.
Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
a.
Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.
a.
Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
n.
An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
v. i.
Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
n.
The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.