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ASTER
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Southern French and German
Southern French and German : from Occitan astor ‘goshawk’ (from Latin acceptor, variant of accipiter ‘hawk’), used as a nickname characterizing a predacious or otherwise hawklike man. The name was taken to southwestern Germany by 17th-century Waldensian refugees from their Alpine valleys above Italian Piedmont.English : variant spelling of Aster.Astor is the name of a famous American family of industrialists and newspaper owners. John Jacob Astor I (1763–1848) was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, the son of a butcher. He followed his brother Henry to New York and made a fortune in the fur trade, which was greatly increased by his descendants in industry, hotels, and newspapers. They built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The great-grandson of John Jacob I, William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), moved to England in 1890, becoming an influential newspaper proprietor and taking British citizenship in 1899. In 1917 he was created Viscount Astor of Hever. His son, the 2nd Viscount (1879–1952), married Nancy Shaw (née Langhorne) (1879–1964), daughter of a VA planter. She became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons as a member of Parliament.
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German
German : nickname from Middle High German agelster ‘magpie’, which was known especially in the Middle Ages for mischievous tricks.English : perhaps a variant of Easter.
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African, Australian, British, English
Star
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English
English : topographic name for someone living to the east of a main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old English ēasterra, in form a comparative of ēast ‘east’ (see East).English : habitational name from a group of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre ‘sheepfold’.English : nickname for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time (Old English ēastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan festival connected with the dawn).Translation of the German family name Oster.
Female
English
English name derived from Greek aster, ASTRA means "star."
Female
English
English name which may be an elaborated form of the Latin word cor, CORDELIA means "heart." This is the name of a legendary queen of the Britons. It is also the name of a moon of Uranus and an asteroid, both of which were named after a Shakespeare character who also bore this name.
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Latin
Star.
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Indian
Praise
Boy/Male
Arabic
Generosity
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Telugu
Always Happy
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of poor, stony land, from Middle English hard ‘hard’, ‘difficult’ + aker ‘cultivated land’ (Old English æcer), or a habitational name from Hardacre, a place in Clapham, West Yorkshire, which has this etymology.
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English
English : variant spelling of Waite.
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African
Her father's daughter.
Boy/Male
Anglo, British, English, German
A Welshman
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Hindu
Long lived
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Italian Spanish Greek Latin
Giant.
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Hindu, Indian
New Creation Light
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n.
An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
a.
Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
n.
Asteriated sapphire.
n.
A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.
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Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
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The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.
n.
The eighteenth asteroid.
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A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.
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A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.
a.
Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
n.
Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
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An asterisk, or mark of reference.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
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Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.
a.
Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
n.
Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
n.
Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.
n. pl.
Alt. of Asteridea
adv.
In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.