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English
English : variant spelling of Reader.Dutch : variant of Reeder 2.North German and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rÄd ‘counsel’ + heri ‘army’.North German and Dutch : occupational name for a ship owner or outfitter, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rÄd ‘counsel’; ‘provisions’, ‘stock’.North German : habitational name from any of various places named Rieder (earlier Redere) or Reher (earlier Rethere) in northern Germany.Possibly an altered spelling of German Röder (see Roeder).
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German
German : topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew (see Rose 1), with the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.German (Röser) : habitational name from places called Rös, Roes, or Rösa in Bavaria, Rhineland, and Saxony, or a variant of Rosser.Swiss German (Röser) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on hrÅd ‘renown’.English : unexplained.
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English
English : from Middle English robuc(k) ‘roebuck’, applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal.
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Dutch
, the country's glory.
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English and French
English and French : occupational name for a wheelright, from Old French roier, rouwier, rouer, roer.French : from a Germanic personal name composed of hrÅd ‘renown’ + hari, heri ‘army’.Respelling of German Rauer.
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English
English : variant spelling of Roebuck.
Male
Dutch
, the country's glory.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname denoting someone who behaved in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities, from Old French rey, roy ‘king’. Occasionally this was used as a personal name.English : nickname for a timid person, from Middle English ray ‘female roe deer’ or northern Middle English ray ‘roebuck’.English : variant of Rye (1 and 2).English : habitational name, a variant spelling of Wray.Scottish : reduced and altered form of McRae.French : from a noun derivative of Old French raier ‘to gush, stream, or pour’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or rushing stream, or a habitational name from a place called Ray.Indian : variant of Rai.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Roper. In southern dialects of English, Old English -Ä- became Middle English -Å-, whereas in Yorkshire -a- was preserved and gave rise to this form of the surname.Possibly also an altered spelling of German Röper or Röber (see Roeber).
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so named from Old English rÄ â€˜roe deer’ + hyll ‘hill’.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who constructed or repaired roofs, from an agent derivative of Middle English roof (Old English hrÅf). In the Middle Ages roofs might be thatched with reeds or straw, or covered with tiles, slates, or wooden shingles.German and English : nickname for an unscrupulous individual, from Middle Low German rÅver ‘pirate’, ‘robber’, Middle English rover. The English verb rove ‘to wander’ is probably a back-formation from this, and is not attested before the 16th century, so it is unlikely to lie behind any examples of the surname.German : variant of Röver (see Roever).
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English
English : from Rol(l)ant, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements hrÅd ‘renown’ + land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (or + -nand ‘bold’, assimilated to -lant ‘land’). This was popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Charlemagne’s warrior of this name, who was killed at Roncesvalles in ad 778.English : habitational name from places in Derbyshire and Sussex, so named from Old Norse rá ‘roebuck’ + lundr ‘wood’, ‘grove’.Variant of German and French Roland.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : variant spelling of Roe.Korean : variant of No.
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English
English : nickname for a swift runner, from northern Middle English ray ‘roebuck’ + bane, bone ‘bone’, ‘leg’.
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English
English : variant of Roebuck.
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English
English : nickname for a timid person, from Middle English ro ‘roe’; this is a midland and southern form of Ray 2.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Roe or Røe, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.English name adopted by bearers of French Baillargeon.Korean : variant of No.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire called Roscoe, named in Old Norse with rá ‘roebuck’ + scógr ‘copse’.Americanized spelling of French Racicot.
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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.
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German and Swiss German (Römer)
German and Swiss German (Römer) : see Roemer.English, Dutch, and German : regional or ethnic name for a Roman or more generally for an Italian.English and Dutch : nickname for a pilgrim, someone who has traveled to Rome (see Romero).German : from the Germanic personal name Hrotmar, composed of hrÅd ‘renown’ + mÄri ‘fame’.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, English, French, Hebrew
Red Haired; Roe Deer
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Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
n.
The roebuck.
n.
The female of any species of deer.
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Same as Oolite.
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A roebuck. See Roebuck.
a.
Filled with roe.
n.
The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.
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The roebuck in its third year.
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A roe; a deer.
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A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.
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A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
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A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.
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A fat herring with undeveloped roe.
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Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.
a.
Of or pertaining to the roebuck.
v. t.
To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
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An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.
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A roebuck two years old.
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A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
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The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.