What is the name meaning of SEXTON. Phrases containing SEXTON
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SEXTON
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English
English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English Seaxe ‘Saxons’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : variant of Sexton 1.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from Middle English pardun, pardon ‘pardon’, a metonymic occupational name for a pardoner, a person licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences.German : either a cognate of 1 (also for a sexton), from Old French pardon ‘pardon’, or perhaps a nickname from Middle Low German bardūn, Middle High German purdūne ‘pipe’ (instrument), ‘tenor’ (voice).
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British, English
Church Custodian
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Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English : variant of Coster.The American military officer George Custer (1839–76) was a descendant of a German officer from Hesse by the name of Küster.
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English
English : occupational name for a sexton or churchwarden, from Middle English sexteyn ‘sexton’ (Old French secrestein, from Latin sacristanus).Irish (Munster and midlands) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seastnáin ‘descendant of Seastnán, Seasnán’, a personal name meaning ‘bodyguard’, from seasuighim ‘to resist’, ‘to defend’.
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Irish Celtic
Bitter.
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English
English : variant of Gascon.
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Indian
Beutiful Eye
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Indian, Tamil
God Ayngaran or Son of Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Indian
Eloquent, Fluent
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Hindu, Indian
God
Female
Czechoslovakian
, compassion, grace; prayers.
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Tamil
Sage
Girl/Female
Indian
Star
Boy/Male
Welsh
Legendary son of Aedd.
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n.
A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
n.
An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
n.
Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.
n.
The office of a sexton.
n.
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
n.
Sextonship.