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name
A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
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name
A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
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name
A place name:
A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).
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name
A place name:
A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
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name
A place name:
A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.
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name
A place name:
A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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name
A place name:
A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.
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name
A place name:
A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.
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noun
A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.
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noun
a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds
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Broader terms: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
noun
Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: James Boswell
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Broader terms: writer, author
History
Scottish surname, from Norman, named after Beuzeville, from Beuze + -ville ("Bosi's farm"); first element from Old Norse Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.
