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BEV
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : variant of Nacke 1.German (Näck) : from a variant of Neck, the name of a water sprite.Americanized spelling of German Knack.English : variant spelling of Nacke.This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English mǣd).English : metonymic occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead (Old English meodu), an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of habergeons, Middle English, Old French haubergeon. The habergeon was a sleeveless jacket of mail or scale armor, which was also worn for penance.Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, James Habersham emigrated to the infant colony of Georgia in 1738 with his friend George Whitefield. Together they established what is believed to be America’s first orphanage. Habersham was married in Bethesda, GA, in 1740 and had three surviving sons, all of whom were educated at Princeton and became ardent patriots.
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English
English : unexplained.South German : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a village on a hill, from Middle High German ober, obar ‘above’. In other cases, it may have denoted someone who lived on an upper floor of a building with two or more floors.North German : topographic for someone who lived on the bank of a river or stream name, standardized from Middle Low German over ‘river bank’.Possibly a shortened form of any of various German compound names formed with Ober- (see entries below).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Ober ‘senior’, ‘chief’. In some cases it can denote a rabbi; in others it is ornamental.A 17th-century American bearer of this name, Richard Ober (1641–1715/16), emigrated from Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, to the Salem colony and settled in Mackerel Cove, MA, later Beverly. His descendant Frederick Albion Ober, who was born in Beverly, MA, in 1849, was an ornithologist who discovered 22 new species of birds in the Lesser Antilles, the flycatcher Myiarchus oberi, and oriole Icterus oberi.
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Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : nickname from bever ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal.English : variant spelling of Beaver.
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English
English : variant of Bevans.
Female
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Béibhinn, BEVIN means "fair lady."Â
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English (Devon and Somerset)
English (Devon and Somerset) : variant spelling of Woodbury.William Woodberry, from Somerset, England, was one of the founders of the settlement at Beverley, MA, in 1628.
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English (southwest Midlands)
English (southwest Midlands) : habitational name from either of two places, in Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, named Bevington, from the Old English personal name Bēofa + Old English -ing- implying association + tūn ‘settlement’.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Anglicized form of Welsh ap Iefan, BEVAN means "son of Evan."
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English
English : nickname from Middle English drink + water. In the Middle Ages weak ale was the universal beverage among the poorer classes, and so cheap as to be drunk like water, whereas water itself was only doubtfully potable. The surname was perhaps a joking nickname given to a pauper or miser allegedly unable or unwilling to afford beer, or may have been given in irony to an innkeeper or a noted tippler. Compare French Boileau, German Trinkwasser.
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English
English : from Middle English stork ‘stork’, hence a nickname for a thin man with long legs, or perhaps occasionally a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a stork. In Yorkshire, where the name is most frequent, it may be a habitational name from a place so named (now known as Storkhill), near Beverley.North German : nickname for someone thought to resemble a stork, Middle Low German stork.German : habitational name from a place so named in Hesse.
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English
English : occupational name for a keeper of a lodging house, Middle English innmann, from Old English inn ‘abode’, ‘lodging’ + mann ‘man’. Until recently there was in England a technical distinction between an inn, where lodgings were available as well as alcoholic beverages, and a tavern, which offered only the latter.
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English
English : variant of Bevill.
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English
English : variant spelling of Beverley.
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Scottish
Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Gaelic gleann, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Glen near Peebles.English : habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, so named from an Old English word glean ‘glen’, ‘valley’ (from Celtic glinn).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish names.A Scottish family of this name settled among the Dutch at Beverwijck in New Netherland in the 17th century and later became prominent in Schenectady.
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English, of Welsh origin
English, of Welsh origin : variant of Bevan, with the addition of the regular English patronymic suffix -s.
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English
English : occupational name from Old French telier ‘weaver’, ‘linen-weaver’.German : variant of Tell 2 and 3.Dutch : occupational name for a teller, a marketplace official.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : either a metonymic occupational name for a dish maker or a nickname, from German Teller, Yiddish teler ‘plate’.Catalan : from a derivative of Tell 4.This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
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English
English : variant of Bevill.
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English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place.Ralph Ellenwood (born 1607) came to Salem, MA, in September 1635 in the Truelove, and later settled in Beverly.
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English
English : possibly an unflattering nickname for a boastful, swaggering person (one who huffs and puffs).German (Hüffer) : from the Germanic personal name Hugifrid, composed of hug ‘head’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + frid ‘peace’.North German (Hüffer) : status name for a prosperous small farmer. Compare South German Huber.German : probably an American spelling of Hof or Hoff.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Meaning of Life
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Indian
Helper
Male
Egyptian
, a priest and prophet of Pthah of Memphis.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so named. Gratton in Derbyshire is from Old English grēat ‘great’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Gratton in High Bray, Devon, is probably ‘great hill’, from Old English grēat + dūn. A number of minor places in Devon are named from the dialect word gratton, gratten ‘stubble-field’.
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Arabic, Muslim
A Young Dog or Fox; First Umayyad Khalifah
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Tamil
Kalipada | காலிபதா
A devotee of Goddess Kali
Girl/Female
Muslim
Sage, Intelligence
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Italian Latin
Bean farmer.
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Indian
Great, Famous, Peace protector
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n.
The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.
v. t.
Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
a.
Alt. of Bevelled
a.
Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
n.
A beverage made of brandy and gin.
a.
Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
n.
Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bevel
n.
An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.
pl.
of Bevy
n.
A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.
a.
Alt. of Bevilled
imp. & p. p.
of Bever
n.
A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
v. t.
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
imp. & p. p.
of Bevel
n.
One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
a.
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.