What is the name meaning of WRIGHT. Phrases containing WRIGHT
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.
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English
English : occupational name for a maker of wheels, from Middle English whele ‘wheel’ (Old English hwēol) + wyrhta ‘wright’. See also Wheeler.John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679), clergyman, came to Boston, MA, from Lincolnshire, England in 1636. He was banished from Massachusettes for his support of his sister-in-law, Anne Hutchinson, in the antinomian controversy; he set up a community at Exeter, NH.
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English American
Craftsman; wagon-wright; wagon driver. Famous Bearer: U.S. Actor John Wayne.
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English American Anglo Saxon
Craftsman.
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English
English : occupational name for a chest maker, from Middle English, Old French arc ‘chest’, ‘bin’ + Middle English wright ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’ (see Wright).
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English
English : patronymic from Wright.
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English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English wryhta/wyrhta, WRIGHT means "craftsman."
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English
English : occupational name for a boat builder, from Middle English bot(e) ‘boat’ + wright ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’.
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English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a maker of carts or wagons, Middle English waynwright (see Wayne + Wright).
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who chopped up wood into tinder, Middle English dethewright, from dethe ‘fuel’, ‘tinder’ + wright ‘maker’.
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English : occupational name for a maker of carts, from Middle English cart(e) + wright ‘craftsman’ (see Wright). The surname is attested from the late 13th century, although the vocabulary word does not occur before the 15th century.
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Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Craftsman; Carpenter
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Tamil
Conch shell, Elephant
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Basque
, man, warrior.
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Tamil
Pure soul
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Biblical
That fasts, their eagerness.
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American, British, English
From Ann's Estate
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Assamese, Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Manipuri, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu
Being Attached to the World; Desire; Wish; Enthusiasm
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English
Variant spelling of English Gerrard, JERRARD means "spear strong."
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English : probably a variant of Munden.
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Tamil
Young Krishna
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English
English : variant spelling of Batty.Americanized spelling of German Bethe, from a short form of the personal names Elisabeth, Bertold, or Bertram.
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A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
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One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
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A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.