What is the name meaning of STEW. Phrases containing STEW
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English (southwestern)
English (southwestern) : from Middle English hous ‘house’ (Old English hūs). In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses, and in most cases this name probably indicates someone who had some connection with the largest and most important building in a settlement, either a religious house or simply the local manor house. In some cases it may be a status name for a householder, someone who owned his own dwelling as opposed to being a tenant, but more often it is an occupational name for a servant who worked in such a house, in particular a steward who managed one.English : respelling of Howes.Translation of German Haus.
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Hindu
Steward
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker or seller of pottage, from Middle English, Old French potagier (an agent noun from potage ‘stew’, ‘thick soup’), with an intrusive -n-.English and Scottish : occupational name from Old French potecaire ‘apothecary’.German : possibly a habitational name from a place called Potting in Bavaria.
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German
German : from Middle High German kellaere ‘cellarman’, ‘cellar master’ (Latin cellarius, denoting the keeper of the cella ‘store chamber’, ‘pantry’). Hence an occupational name for the overseer of the stores, accounts, or household in general in, for example, a monastery or castle. Kellers were important as trusted stewards in a great household, and in some cases were promoted to ministerial rank. The surname is widespread throughout central Europe.English : either an occupational name for a maker of caps or cauls, from Middle English kellere, or an occupational name for an executioner, from Old English cwellere.Irish : reduced form of Kelleher.Scottish : variant of Keillor.
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English
English : variant of Stewart.
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Scottish
Steward.
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
A Steward
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English (most common in East Anglia)
English (most common in East Anglia) : from Middle English reeve, an occupational name for a steward or bailiff, the precise character of whose duties varied from place to place and at different periods.
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English
English : patronymic meaning ‘son the of steward’ (see Stewart).
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Scottish
Steward; Household Guardian; Form of Stuart; Surname; House Guard
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English
English : occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German grēve (see Graf).English : topographic name, a variant of Grove.French : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave ‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin).North German : either from the northern form of Graf, but more commonly a topographic name from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’, ‘channel’, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with this word.
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English (northern)
English (northern) : occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (reduced from Old French procurateour, Latin procurator ‘agent’, from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court, but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.John Proctor (d. 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground there.
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Steward
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English
English : from Middle English schireman, Old English scīrman, literally ‘shire man’. This was a name for a sherriff or other administrative official of a county; later it came to mean ‘bailiff’ or ‘steward’.
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English
English : variant of Kilner.German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kellner, in any of its senses: ‘cellarman’, ‘steward’, ‘overseer’, or ‘waiter’. In this spelling it is also found as a Czech name.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from modern German Kellner or Yiddish kelner ‘waiter’.
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English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English stigweard, composed of the elements stig "house" and weard "guard," STEWART means "house guard; steward."
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Anglo Saxon American English Scottish
Steward.
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English
Short form of English Stewart, STEW means "steward."
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Steward; Bailiff
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stew
n.
A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
n.
A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.
v. t.
A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
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Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.
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Suiting a stew, or brothel.
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A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
adv.
In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.
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A pot used for stewing.
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The office of a steward.
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In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.
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A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
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A pan used for stewing.
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The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
v. t.
A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
imp. & p. p.
of Stew
v. t.
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
v. t.
To manage as a steward.
n.
The office of a steward; stewardship.
v. t.
A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.