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STREET
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English
English : variant of Streeter.
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English (South Yorkshire)
English (South Yorkshire) : variant of Street.
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English (mainly Newcastle and Durham)
English (mainly Newcastle and Durham) : of uncertain origin, probably a derivative of northern Middle English stang ‘pole’ (of Old Norse origin). Possible meanings include a topographic name for someone who lived by a pole or stake (compare Stakes) or an occupational name for someone armed with one. Alternatively, it may be a nickname for someone who had ‘ridden the stang’, i.e. been carried on a pole through the streets as an object of derision, in punishment for some misdemeanor. However, this custom is of uncertain antiquity.Orcadian : probably a habitational name from a minor place called Stanagar in the parish of Stromness.German : occupational name for a maker of shafts for spears and the like, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stange ‘pole’, ‘shaft’.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : habitational name from Maxted Street in Kent.
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South German, Swiss, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
South German, Swiss, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived in a street in a city, town, or village, Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas ‘street’, ‘side street’.English : variant of Gash.Altered spelling of German Gast, found in the areas of Swiss settlement.
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Irish
Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maoil Fhábhail ‘descendant of Maolfhábhail’, a personal name meaning ‘fond of movement or travel’.English : from the common French place name Laval, from Old French val ‘valley’. This is also a Huguenot name (with the same etymology), taken to England by Etienne-Abel Laval, a minister of the French church in Castle Street, London, around 1730.French : habitational name from Lavelle in Puy-de-Dôme or various other, smaller places so named.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English trull ‘slattern’, ‘prostitute’.German : nickname for a street entertainer or a cheat, from a noun derivative of Middle High German trüllen ‘to juggle’, also ‘to cheat’.German (also Trüll) : from a short form of the female personal name Gertrud (see Trude).
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by the west gate of a city, from Middle English west ‘west’ + gate ‘gate’, or, in northern and eastern areas, ‘street’ (from Old Norse gata), or a habitational name from any of numerous places named Westgate, for example in County Durham, Kent, and Northumberland.
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English
English : habitational name from various minor places so called, in York, Lincoln, Market Weighton (East Yorkshire), Methley (West Yorkshire), and Sawley (West Yorkshire), all named from Old English hund ‘hound’ or Old Norse hundr + Old Norse gata ‘road’, ‘street’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, in Bedfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, and Wiltshire, so named from Old English strǣt ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (see Street) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. A place of the same name in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.
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South German
South German : topographic name for someone who lived on a corner (either a street corner, or the corner of a valley running around a mountain), from an altered form of Eck + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Dutch and German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agi ‘point (of a sword)’ + heri ‘army’.South German(Swabia) : occupational name for a farmer, from an agent derivative of eggen ‘to harrow’.English : variant of Edgar 1.
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English
English : variant spelling of Street.
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English (mainly southern)
English (mainly southern) : metonymic occupational name for a dancer, or a nickname for someone with an odd gait, from Middle English trip(p)(en) ‘to step lightly, skip, or hop’ (Old French triper).English : metonymic occupational name for a butcher or tripe dresser, from Middle English, Old French trip(p)e ‘tripe’ (of unknown origin).German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden pattens (trippe), a type of raised sole that could be strapped to normal footwear for walking in unpaved muddy streets.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a paved road, in most cases a Roman road, from Middle English stane, stone ‘stone’ + strete ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’, or a habitational name from either of two places called Stone Street in Kent and Suffolk, which have this origin.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Greater London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and Warwickshire, named in Old English with strǣt ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (see Street) + ford ‘ford’.
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English and North German
English and North German : metonymic occupational name for a plasterer, from Middle English, Middle Low German plaster (from Latin emplastrum ‘(wound) plaster’ (originally a paste), from Greek emplastron, a derivative of emplassein ‘to shape or form’; the term was carried over into building terminology to mean ‘bonding agent’).English : habitational name from any of various places called Plaistow (in East London, Derbyshire, Sussex, and elsewhere), from Old English plegestÅw ‘place where people gather for sport or play’. This can also be a variant of Plaisted (through interchangeable use of the Old English elements stÅw and stede, both meaning ‘place’, in earlier times).German and Ashkenazic Jewish (Pflaster) : from Middle High German pflaster (German Pflaster, from Latin plastrum) ‘street pavement’, ‘pavement’, cognate with 1.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Hertfordshire, Kent, and Somerset, so named from Old English strǣt ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (Latin strata (via)). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village, and so the surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived on a main street.Jewish : Americanized form of the Sephardic surname Chetrit, of uncertain origin.Americanized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Strasser and a number of other similar surnames.The Rev. Nicholas Street (1603–74) came from England to Taunton, MA, between 1630 and 1638, and later moved to New Haven, CT, where his descendant Augustus Russell Street, a leader in art education, was born in 1791 and went on to become one of the most important early benefactors of Yale College.
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Scottish
Scottish : reduced form of McGath.English : variant of Garth.North German (Gäth) : variant of Gäde (see Gaede).North German : topographic name from Middle Low German gate ‘street’, ‘alley’.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. Reaney suggests that it may be habitational name from Wincheap Street in Canterbury, but this origin is not supported by the present-day distribution of the surname, which is heavily concentrated in northeastern England.
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English (Sussex)
English (Sussex) : topographic name for someone living by a highway, in particular a Roman road (see Street).
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v. i.
To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
n.
A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.
n.
A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
v. i.
To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
a.
Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.
adv.
Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.
n.
A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
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A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.
v. t.
To cleanse, as streets, from filth.
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Facing toward the street.
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Not obstructed by barricades; open; as, unbarricadoed streets.
n.
A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
v. t.
To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
v.
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
n.
A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.
v.
A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
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An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.
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That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.
v. t.
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.