What is the name meaning of WOODWARD. Phrases containing WOODWARD
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English
Forester.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward), or topographic name for someone who lived in the woods.English and Scottish : possibly from the Old English personal name Wudumann.
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Forester; From the Woods Warden
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English
English : occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from the Old English elements mentioned at 2).English : perhaps also from an Old English personal name Wuduweard, composed of the elements wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian’, ‘protector’.English : Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born about 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
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English
English : variant of Woodward.
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n.
A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.
n.
An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.