What is the name meaning of WORCESTER. Phrases containing WORCESTER
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English (Worcestershire)
English (Worcestershire) : unexplained.
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English (Herefordshire and Worcestershire)
English (Herefordshire and Worcestershire) : habitational name from any of various places named from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘mound’, notably Rubery in Hereford and Worcester.
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English (Worcestershire) : variant of Thornberry.
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English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (MartÃn), Italian (Venice), etc.
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (MartÃn), Italian (Venice), etc. : from a personal name (Latin Martinus, a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’). This was borne by a famous 4th-century saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. As a North American surname, this form has absorbed many cognates from other European forms.English : habitational name from any of several places so called, principally in Hampshire, Lincolnshire, and Worcestershire, named in Old English as ‘settlement by a lake’ (from mere or mær ‘pool’, ‘lake’ + tÅ«n ‘settlement’) or as ‘settlement by a boundary’ (from (ge)mære ‘boundary’ + tÅ«n ‘settlement’). The place name has been charged from Marton under the influence of the personal name Martin.
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English (Worcestershire)
English (Worcestershire) : probably a variant of Hindley or Handley.
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English (Hereford and Worcester) : unexplained.
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English (chiefly Worcestershire)
English (chiefly Worcestershire) : variant of Darrell.
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English (Worcestershire) : variant of Heathcock.
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English : habitational name from the city of Worcester, named from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’) + a British tribal name of uncertain origin.Rev. William Worcester emigrated from England and settled in Salisbury, MA, before 1638. He had many prominent descendants, including Noah Worcester (b. 1758) and Samuel Worcester (b. 1770), both NH Congregational clergymen, and Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865), a noted lexicographer, geographer, and historian.
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English (chiefly Gloucestershire and Worcestershire)
English (chiefly Gloucestershire and Worcestershire) : variant of Millward.French (northern) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements mil ‘good’, ‘gracious’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Southern French : from a variant spelling of Occitan milhar ‘millet field’ (from mil ‘millet’).
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English (Worcestershire)
English (Worcestershire) : unexplained.
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English (Worcestershire) : nickname from the ‘heath cock’, the black grouse.
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English (chiefly Worcestershire and West Midlands)
English (chiefly Worcestershire and West Midlands) : habitational name from Peplow in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Papelau. This may be from Old English pyppel ‘pebble’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.German : habitational name from Peplow in Mecklenburg.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived in the center of a village, from Middle English midde ‘mid’ + toun ‘village’, ‘town’.English : habitational name from places in Lancashire, Worcestershire, and West Yorkshire, so named in Old English as ‘farmstead at a river confluence’, from (ge)m̄ðe ‘river confluence’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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English (Worcestershire) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname from Middle English schucke ‘devil’, ‘fiend’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Schuck.Americanized spelling of German Schuck.
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English (Worcestershire) : topographic name for someone living by a steep uphill path, from a derivative of Old English stigel, stigol ‘steep uphill path’. Compare Stiles.
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English (Shropshire, Worcestershire)
English (Shropshire, Worcestershire) : variant of Welsh Owen.
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English (Worcestershire) : unexplained.
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English (Hereford and Worcester)
English (Hereford and Worcester) : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Leake.
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English (Worcestershire) : unexplained.
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