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Spanish
The gypsy female lead in a 1970s soap opera.
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Egyptian
Egyptian hero of Puccini's opera Aida.
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Yiddish
(לִיבֶּע) Yiddish form of German liebe, LIBE means "love." Compare with another form of Libe.
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French sur(ri)gien (from a derivative of Late Latin chirurgia ‘handiwork’), hence an occupational name for a person who performed operations, mostly amputations. Before the advent of anaesthetics, only crude surgery was possible, and the calling was often combined with that of the barber or bath house attendant.French : topographic name for someone who lived close to a gushing spring.
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English
English : occupational name for a maker of string or bow strings, from an agent derivative of Middle English streng ‘string’. In Yorkshire, where it is still particularly common, Redmonds argues that the surname may have been connected with iron working, a stringer having operated some form of specialist hearth.
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English
English : from Middle English blÅwere ‘one who blows’. The name was applied chiefly to someone who operated a bellows, either as a blacksmith’s assistant or to provide wind for a church organ. In other cases it was applied to someone who blew a horn, i.e. a huntsman or a player of the musical instrument.Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ab Llywarch ‘son of Llywarch’. Compare Flower.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
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Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
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Yiddish
(לִיבָּ×) Variant form of Yiddish Libe, LIBA means "love." Compare with another form of Liba.
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French faucon, falcun ‘falcon’, either a metonymic occupational name for a falconer, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the falcon, which was regarded as a symbol of speed and courage in the Middle Ages. In a few cases, it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a man who operated the piece of artillery named after the bird of prey. Compare Faulkner.In Louisiana, the name Falcón is borne by the descendants of Canary Islanders brought in to settle in 1779.
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Hebrew
(לִיבָּ×) Variant form of Hebrew Libe, LIBA means "heart." Compare with another form of Liba.
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Greek
Violet flower. The name of a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera from 1882. Also a mythological sea nymph...
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English
English : from the Old Norse female personal name Gunvǫr, composed of the elements gunn ‘battle’ + vǫr, the feminine form of varr ‘defender’, or possibly from the Old Norse male personal name Gunnarr.English : occupational name for an operator of heavy artillery (see Gunn).Americanized spelling of German Gönner, a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named Gönne.
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from Middle High German bloch, Middle Dutch blok ‘block of wood’, ‘stocks’. The surname probably originated as a nickname for a large, lumpish man, or perhaps as a nickname for a persistent lawbreaker who found himself often in the stocks.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who blocks, as in shoemaking and bookbinding, from Middle English blok ‘block’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized spelling of Bloch (see Vlach).Adriaen Coertsz Block was a Dutch-born merchant-explorer who traded along the CT coast and Long Island shortly after Hudson’s voyage to the region in 1609. Block Island, between the north fork of Long Island and RI, which he used as a base of operations, is named after him.
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Scottish and English
Scottish and English : topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, Middle English mille, milne (Old English myl(e)n, from Latin molina, a derivative of molere ‘to grind’). It was usually in effect an occupational name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill, whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of payment.English : from a short form of a personal name, probably female, as for example Millicent.
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Hebrew
(לִיבֶּע) Hebrew name derived from the word lev, LIBE means "heart." Compare with another form of Libe.
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Welsh Latin
ALatin Gerontius, from the Greek 'geron' meaning old. Famous bearer: Welsh opera singer Sir...
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : nickname for a lordly, impressive, or sharp-eyed man, from Middle English egle ‘eagle’ (from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Laigle in Orne, France, the name of which ostensibly means ‘the eagle’, although it is possible that the recorded forms result from the operation of early folk etymology on some unknown original. Matilda de Aquila is recorded in 1129 as the widow of Robert Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland.Jewish : translation into English of Adler.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Libson, a metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Libe, from Yiddish ‘love’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Lipe (a short form of Lipman).English : patronymic from Lipp 2.English : habitational name from Lipson in Devon, which is possibly named from Old English hlÄ«ep ‘leap’, ‘steep place’ + stÄn ‘stone’.
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Czechoslovakian
, love.
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Biblical
Rising early, crown.
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Indian
Guru's Blessing
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Arabic, Indian, Malaysian, Muslim
Light from the Earth
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British, English
Old Leader
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British, English
Noble Friend
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Hindu
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English
 Variant spelling of English Shirley, SHIRLEE means "bright clearing." Compare with another form of Shirlee.
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Hindu, Indian
Glorious
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Spanish
Spanish pet form of Latin Rosa, ROSITA means "rose."
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : habitational name from Maxted Street in Kent.
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n.
That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
n.
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
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The act of operating or working; operation.
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The house where operas are exhibited.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Operate
a.
Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.
n.
The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
n.
Alt. of Operancy
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Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
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Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.
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Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
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Operative.
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A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.
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The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.
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Alt. of Operatical
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An operative person or thing.
imp. & p. p.
of Operate
adv.
In an operative manner.
n.
One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
v. t.
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.