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THORN
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English
English : variant of Thornberry.
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Thorny Dike
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Thornberry.
Surname or Lastname
English and Danish
English and Danish : topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse þorn). The name is also found in Sweden.English : habitational name from a place named with Old English, Old Norse þorn ‘thorn bush’ (see 1), for example Thorne in Kent, Somerset, and South Yorkshire.North German and Danish : topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn ‘tower’.German : habitational name from the city of Thorn (Toruń in Poland), which was named with Middle High German torn ‘tower’.
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English
English : variant (plural) of Thorn 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of five farmsteads named Tornes, from an unexplained first element + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a defense consisting of a thorn hedge and a ditch, or a habitational name from some minor place named with Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Thornhill, for example in Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire, from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + hyll ‘hill’.
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English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from Thornley in Lancashire, so named from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Irish : Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan).Irish : possibly a translated form of Gaelic Ó Muineacháin (see Monahan).
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English
English : variant spelling of Thorndike.
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Swedish
Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements thorn, an ornamental spelling of torn ‘thorn bush’ + the common adjectival suffix -ell, from Latin -elius.English : variant of Thornhill.
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English (Worcestershire)
English (Worcestershire) : variant of Thornberry.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Thorn Tree Farm
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English (mainly southern)
English (mainly southern) : variant spelling of Thorn 1.Swedish : ornamental name from thorn, an ornamental spelling of torn ‘thorn bush’.
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Thorny Meadow
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British, English
From the Thorny Dike
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English Gaelic American
Town of thorns. Thorn variants are English surnames occasionally used as given names.
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English
Town of thorns. Thornton variant. Surname.
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English
English : habitational name from Thornborough in North Yorkshire (Thornebergh in 12th-century records) or Thornbrough in Northumberland and North Yorkshire (T(h)orneburg in 13th-century records). The former is probably so named from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + beorg ‘hill’; the latter from þorn + burh ‘fort’. Other possible though less likely sources are Thornbury in Devon, Gloucestershire, or Herefordshire, which are all named from Old English þorn + byrig, dative of burh ‘fortified place’.Possibly an Americanized spelling of Swedish Thornberg.
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English
English : variant of Thornberry.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke).Dutch : from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle’, ‘periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
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English
English : occupational name for a seller or gatherer of beeswax, from Wax with the addition of Middle English man ‘man’.Americanized spelling of the German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) cognate Wachsmann (see Wachs).
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Practice; Study
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Shy
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Sunrise
Girl/Female
German
Peaceful Victory
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Shine of God
Male
Finnish
 Pet form of Finnish Mikko, MIKA means "who is like God?" Compare with another form of Mika.
Boy/Male
Sikh
Protector of splendor, Quick (1)
Girl/Female
Indian
The bow or name of a Hindu Rashi sagittarius
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n.
The turbot.
n.
Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
n.
One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.
n.
A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.
a.
Set with thorns.
n.
A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.
superl.
Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
n.
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
n.
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
n.
A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.
n.
The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).
superl.
Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
a.
Destitute of, or free from, thorns.
a.
Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
n.
The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
n.
A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.
n.
Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.
n.
Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
v. t.
To prick, as with a thorn.