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English
English : variant spelling of Wardle.
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English and French
English and French : topographic name for someone who lived by or in a deep valley, from Middle English, Old French gorge ‘gorge’, ‘ravine’ (from Old French gorge ‘throat’). There are various places in England and France named with this word, and the surname may be a habitational name from any of these.German : unexplained.A family by the name of Gorges originated in the village of Gorges near Périers in Normandy, France, where Ralph de Gorges was living in the late 11th century. A branch of the family was established in England when Thomas de Gorges lost his lands to the King of France. He became warden of Henry III’s manor of Powerstock, Devon.
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English
English : probably a variant of Gatward, an occupational name for a gate keeper or goatherd, from Old English geat ‘gate’ or gÄt ‘goat’ + weard ‘ward’, ‘keeper’.
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English
English : variant of Ayer.English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, Middle English hay (see Hay 1) + the suffix -er(e) denoting an inhabitant.French : occupational name for a warder of woodland, from an agent derivative of Old French haye ‘hedge’, ‘enclosed forest’.South German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German heien ‘to guard or protect’, hence an occupational name for a warden of woodland or crops.Indian (Panjab) : Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan, also called Her.
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English
English : local name for someone who lived in a small cottage or temporary dwelling, Middle English logge (Old French loge, of Germanic origin). The term was used in particular of a cabin erected by masons working on the site of a particular construction project, such as a church or cathedral, and so it was probably in many cases equivalent to an occupational name for a mason. Reaney suggests that one early form, atte Logge, might sometimes have denoted the warden of a masons’ lodge.Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential U.S. senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Wardle or a habitational name from a place called Wordwell in Suffolk, probably named with an Old English wride ‘bend’ + well ‘stream’.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place called Hey.Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived on a heath, Dutch hei, heide.German : metonymic occupational name for a grower or mower of grass, from Middle High German höu ‘grass’, ‘hay’.North German (Frisian) and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name formed with hag ‘fence’, ‘enclosure’ as the first element.South German : occupational name from Middle High German heie ‘ranger’, ‘warden’, ‘guard’ or a topographic name from Middle High German haie ‘protected wood’.
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English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English weard, WARD means "guard, watchman."Â
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English
English : from the Germanic personal name Grimward, composed of grīm ‘mask’, ‘helmet’ + ward ‘guard’.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Norman French wardein (a derivative of warder ‘to guard’).English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Kent, Northumbria, and Northamptonshire, called Warden, from Old English weard ‘watch’ + dūn ‘hill’. Compare Wardlaw and Wardle 1.
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English
English : from the Norman personal name Huard, Heward, composed of the Germanic elements hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.English : from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name HÄward, composed of the Old Norse elements há ‘high’ + varðr ‘guardian’, ‘warden’.English : variant of Ewart 2.Irish : see Fogarty.Irish (County Clare) surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó hÃomhair, which was formerly Anglicized as O’Hure.The house of Howard, the leading family of the English Roman Catholic nobility, was founded by Sir William Howard or Haward of Norfolk (d. 1308). The family acquired the dukedom of Norfolk by marriage. The first duke of Norfolk of the Howard line was created earl marshal of England by Richard III in 1483, and this office has been held by his succeeding male heirs to the present day. They also hold the earldoms of Suffolk, Berkshire, Carlisle, and Effingham. Henry VIII’s fifth queen, Catherine Howard (?1520–42), was a niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. American Howards include the father and son John Eager Howard and Benjamin Chew Howard of Baltimore, MD, both MD politicians.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Cheshire and Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire) called Wardle, from Old English weard ‘watch’ + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw.English : regional name from Weardale in County Durham, which takes its name from the Wear river (named with a Celtic word probably meaning ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
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English
English : occupational name for a watchman, from Old French garde ‘watch’, ‘protection’, a word of Germanic origin. Compare Ward 1.
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English
English : occupational name for guard, a variant of Ward.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from a place called Wardour in Wiltshire, named with Old english weard ‘watch’ + Åra ‘hill slope’.
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Scottish and English
Scottish and English : variant of Lockhart 1 and 2.English : from Middle English Locward ‘keeper of the fold’, from Old English, Middle English loc ‘enclosure’, ‘fold’ + Middle English ward ‘guardian’, ‘keeper’ (Old English weard)
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English
English : occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).Irish : reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.The surname Ward was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), author of the MA legal code, was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Agawam (Ipswich, MA) in 1633. William Ward was one of the original settlers of Sudbury, MA, in about 1638. Miles Ward came from England to Salem, MA, in about 1639. Thomas Ward (d. 1689) settled in Newport, RI, in 1671; among his descendants were two governors of colonial RI.
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Frisian
Frisian : from the personal name Hadder, derived from a Germanic name composed of the elements hadu ‘strife’ + ward ‘guard’, ‘protector’.English : unexplained.
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English
English : occupational name for an official who was responsible for protecting land or enclosed forest from damage by animals, poachers, or vandals, from Middle English hay ‘enclosure’ (see Hay 1) + ward ‘guardian’.
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English
English : habitational name from Wardlow in Derbyshire, from Old English weard ‘watch’ + hlÄw ‘hill’. Compare Wardlaw.
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n.
An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
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One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
n.
A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
n.
A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
n.
Alt. of Wardenship
n.
A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
n.
Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.
n.
A man who keeps ward; a guard.
pl.
of Wardsman
a.
Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.
n.
A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
n.
A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Ward
n.
The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
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The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.
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The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
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A warden of the marches; a marcher.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ward
v. i.
Alt. of -wards