What is the name meaning of BUTLER. Phrases containing BUTLER
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Welsh American
Form of Rhys: ardent; fiery. Rhett Butler was hero of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
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English
English : perhaps a patronymic (meaning ‘son of the butler’) from Burl.Aaron Burleson emigrated from England to NC in 1726.
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English and Irish
English and Irish : from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all.Anglicized form of French Boutilier.Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine) : occupational name for a bottle maker, from Yiddish butl ‘bottle’ + the agent suffix -er.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Butler was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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Egyptian
, the mother of the royal butler Aia.
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Arthurian
, (Sir), butler to Arthur.
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English
English : from a medieval personal name, Latin Bart(h)olomaeus, from the Aramaic patronymic bar-Talmay ‘son of Talmay’, meaning ‘having many furrows’, i.e. rich in land. This was an extremely popular personal name in Christian Europe, with innumerable vernacular derivatives. It derived its popularity from the apostle St. Bartholomew (Matthew 10:3), the patron saint of tanners, vintners, and butlers. As an Irish name, it has been used as an Americanized form of Mac Pharthaláin (see McFarlane).
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Arthurian
, (Sir), butler to Arthur.
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American, British, English
Cup Bearer; Butler; Wine Servant; Knot in a Tree; Forest
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English
English : variant spelling of Butler.German : occupational name for a village tavern owner, from French bouteillier ‘butler’.Respelling of the German habitational name Buttlar, from a place so named in Thuringia.
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A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
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Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
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An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
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A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
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The office of a butler.
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A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.
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A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.