name
Meaning 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
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Beeman
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CMU ARPABET: B IY1 M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who tends bees, usually as an occupation; beekeeper.
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History
Etymology
From beeman, an occupational surname for a beekeeper.
From Middle English beman, bemon, perhaps a partial calque of Old English bēoċeorl (“beekeeper”), equivalent to bee + -man. Old English bēoċeorl may be an alteration of bēocere (“beekeeper”).