What is the name meaning of BANK. Phrases containing BANK
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BANK
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English
English : habitational name from Fair Banks in Derbyshire or any of various other minor places so called.
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English
English : habitational name from Elmore in Gloucestershire, named from Old English elm ‘elm’ + Åfer ‘river bank’ or ofer ‘ridge’.
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English
English : topographic name from northern Middle English bank(e) ‘hillside slope’, ‘riverbank’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (see Banks).Scottish : habitational name from Bankier in Stirlingshire.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Polish bankier ‘banker’.German (Bänker) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German banc ‘bench’, ‘counter’ (see Bank).
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Indian
River bank
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a bank of yew trees, Old English īw, + bank.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German or Middle Low German banc, or Yiddish bank ‘bench’, ‘table’, ‘counter’, in any of various senses, e.g. a metonymic occupational name for anyone whose work required a bench or counter, for example a butcher, baker, court official, or money changer.Danish and Swedish : topographic name from bank ‘(sand)bank’ or a habitational name from a farm named with this word.Danish and Swedish : from bank ‘noise’, hence a nickname for a loud or noisy person. Compare Bang.Danish : habitational name from the German place name Bänkau.English : probably a variant of Banks.Americanized spelling of Polish Bąk, literally ‘horsefly’; perhaps a nickname for an irritating person.Hungarian (Bánk) : from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bán.
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Hindu
River bank
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Banks 1.
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English
English : habitational name from a place called Ketton in Durham or one in Rutland or from Keaton in Ermington, Devon. The first is named from the Old English personal name Catta or the Old Norse personal name Káti + Old English tūn ‘settlement’; the second is probably from an old river name or tribal name Cētan (possibly a derivative of Celtic cēd ‘wood’) + Old English ēa ‘river’; and the last possibly from Cornish kee ‘hedge’, ‘bank’ + Old English tūn.
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Tamil
Sea shore. from kinnara, Which is a Bengali word meaning bank/shore
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English
English : habitational name from Gaultney in Rushton, Northamptonshire, probably so named from Old Norse gǫltr ‘boar’ + Old Danish klint ‘steep cliff or bank’ with the later addition of Middle English heye ‘enclosure’. The surname is not found in the U.K. In the U.S., it is concentrated in GA. Compare Gautney.
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Muslim
River bank
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English
English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English long ‘long’ + weye ‘way’, ‘road’, or a habitational name from some minor place so named; Longway Bank in Derbyshire, however, is named from Old English lang ‘long’ + hÅh ‘hill spur’.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name, Elyat, Elyt. This represents at least two Old English personal names which have fallen together: the male name A{dh}elgēat (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + Gēat, a tribal name; see Jocelyn), and the female personal name A{dh}elḡ{dh} (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + ḡ{dh} ‘battle’). The Middle English name seems also to have absorbed various other personal names of Old English or Continental Germanic origin, as for example Old English Ælfweald (see Ellwood).English : from a pet form of Ellis.Scottish : Anglicized form of the originally distinct Gaelic surname Elloch, Eloth, a topographic name from Gaelic eileach ‘dam’, ‘mound’, ‘bank’. Compare Eliot.
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English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : habitational name from Mankea in Cornwall, named with Corinsh men ‘stone’ + kee ‘bank’, ‘hedge’.Americanized form of German Manke.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived ‘by the fair bank’ or habitational name from a minor place so named, of which there are examples in Cheshire and Cumbria.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : nickname from Middle English fitten ‘lying’, ‘deceit’ (of unknown origin).English (chiefly Lancashire) : possibly a habitational name from Fitton Hall in Cambridgeshire, named in Anglo-Scandinavian as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the fit (Old Norse fit)’, a term denoting grassland on the bank of a river.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Gatley in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire), recorded in 1290 as Gateclyve, from Old English gÄt ‘goat’ + clif ‘cliff’, ‘bank’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on the slope of a hillside or by a riverbank, from northern Middle English banke (from Old Danish banke). The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’.
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Tamil
River bank
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n.
The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
v. t.
To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
imp. & p. p.
of Bankrupt
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of Bankruptcy
a.
Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
n.
A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
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Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
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Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
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Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
n.
The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bankrupt
n.
A female banker.
v. t.
To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
n.
The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
n.
The business of a bank or of a banker.