What is the name meaning of YORK. Phrases containing YORK
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : of uncertain origin, probably from Middle English metecalf ‘food calf’, i.e. a calf being fattened up for eating at the end of the summer. It is thus either an occupational name for a herdsman or slaughterer, or a nickname for a sleek and plump individual, from the same word in a transferred sense. The variants in med- appear early, and suggest that the first element was associated by folk etymology with Middle English mead ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Lobley Gate in West Yorkshire.
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English (North Yorkshire)
English (North Yorkshire) : habitational name, apparently from Leathley in North Yorkshire, so named from Old English hlith ‘slope’ (genitive plural hleotha) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of several minor places so called, mostly in West Yorkshire, Littlewood in Wooldale being a well-recorded instance. They are named with Old English l̄tel ‘small’ + wudu ‘wood’.
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : variant of Jagger.
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived in a long valley, from Middle English long + botme, bothem ‘valley bottom’. Given the surname’s present-day distribution, Longbottom in Luddenden Foot, West Yorkshire, may be the origin, but there are also two places called Long Bottom in Hampshire, two in Wiltshire, and Longbottom Farm in Somerset and in Wiltshire.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire and Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places so called, of which the largest are in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The place name is from the Old English personal name Inga + hÄm ‘homestead’. Some authorities believe the first element to be a word meaning ‘the Inguione’, from an ancient Germanic tribe known as the Inguiones.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from a Norman female personal name, Legard, derived from the Germanic name Liutgard (borne by Charlemagne’s wife), composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + gard ‘enclosure’.French : metonymic occupational name for a gardener, or status name for someone who owned garden, from Old French gard ‘garden’ with the definite article le.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : patronymic from the Old French personal name Ive.
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English (Durham and Yorkshire)
English (Durham and Yorkshire) : unexplained; perhaps an altered form of Lindley.
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English (Durham and North Yorkshire)
English (Durham and North Yorkshire) : unexplained; perhaps an altered spelling of Scottish and northern Irish Keddy.Irish : variant spelling of Keady.
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English (mainly Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire)
English (mainly Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire) : variant of Langley.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire called Lofthouse (see Loftus).Americanized form of the Norwegian cognate Lofthus.
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : occupational name from Middle English jagger ‘carter’, ‘peddler’, an agent derivative of Middle English jag ‘pack’, ‘load’ (of unknown origin). All or most present-day bearers of this surname are probably members of a single family, which originally came from Staniland in the parish of Halifax. During the 16th century it spread through the Calder valley, and from there to other parts of England.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Loftus in Cleveland, Lofthouse in West Yorkshire, or Loftsome in East Yorkshire. All are named from Old Norse lopt ‘loft’, ‘upper storey’ + hús ‘house’, the last being derived from the dative plural form, húsum. Houses built with an upper storey (which was normally used for the storage of produce during the winter) were a considerable rarity among the ordinary people of the Middle Ages.Irish : English surname adopted by certain bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Lochlainn (see Laughlin) or Ó Lachtnáin (see Lough).
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English (South Yorkshire)
English (South Yorkshire) : habitational name from Maxfield in Sussex, or Maxfield Plain in North Yorkshire.
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : variant of Latham.
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English (South Yorkshire)
English (South Yorkshire) : habitational name from Manningham near Bradford, recorded in the 13th century as Maingham.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from Laycock in West Yorkshire or possibly from Lacock in Wiltshire. Both are recorded in Domesday Book as Lacoc and seem to be named with a diminutive of Old English lacu ‘stream’.
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English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a leatherworker or seller of leather goods, from Middle English lether, Old English leþer ‘leather’.
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Hindu, Indian
Created with Immense Power
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Hindu, Indian
Arrow Tip
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Tamil
Lord Shiva, Sentiment
Male
Welsh
Welsh name ARWEL means "prominent."
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Muslim
Flower, Beauty, Star
Male
Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Gemarya, GEMARIA means "God has accomplished."
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Hindu, Indian
Quite New
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Indian, Kannada
Satisfaction
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Hick + Middle English maugh, mough ‘relative’ (from Old Norse mágr or Old English magu). The exact nature of the relationship is not clear; the Middle English word meant ‘relative by marriage’, but was also used occasionally of a female blood relation.
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Hindu
Prepared, Initiated
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A tice.
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A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.
n. pl.
A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
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A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York.
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One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.
v. t.
The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
n.
The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2.
a.
To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
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A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.
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In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.
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A county in the north of England.
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Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
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One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.