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JOHNSON
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English
English : probably a variant of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Mory, a short form of Amaury (see Emery, Morey).Roger Mowry (c. 1612–66) emigrated from England to MA before 1634, when he married Mary Johnson in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA.
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French American English Scottish
Jehovah has been gracious; has shown favor.
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Son of John; Variant of the John
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : patronymic from the personal name John. As an American family name, Johnson has absorbed patronymics and many other derivatives of this name in continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)Johnson is the second most frequent surname in the U.S. It was brought independently to North America by many different bearers from the 17th and 18th centuries onward.
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a.
Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
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A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.
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A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).
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A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
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Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
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The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
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A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
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A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
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A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.