Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Used generically as a name for a male farmer, irrespective of their actual name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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name
A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A place name in the United States:
A village in Jackson Parish, Louisiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A rustic; a country person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Roger. The substitution of H for R is common in English words derived from Norman French.
From the name Hodge, from Roger.
