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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.
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name
An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the borough seat of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Christian County, Illinois.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lake County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Washington County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Hampden County, Massachusetts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marquette County, Michigan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Washington County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Merrick County, Nebraska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Putnam County, Ohio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Washington County, Ohio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Grundy County, Tennessee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Ellis County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cameron County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in King County, Washington.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Rush River, St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Sutton, No. 103, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A place in Australia:
A rural locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A place in Australia:
A town east of the Adelaide Hills in Mid Murray council area, South Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A place in Australia:
A rural locality in the Shire of Collie, Western Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Abbreviation of palmerworm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic
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noun
A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
In fly fishing, to wrap a hackle etc. along the whole shank of a hook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
United States golfer (born in 1929)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Arnold Palmer, Arnold Daniel Palmer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: golfer, golf player, linksman
History
From Middle English palmer (“a pilgrim from the Holy Land”), from Old French.
From Middle English palmer, from Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier (“palmer”), from Medieval Latin palmārius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).
From noun.
From the transitive verb to palm.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
