name
Meaning 1
A topographic surname from Middle English.
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Standard Lemma guide
rowen
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Pronunciation
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/ˈɹaʊən/
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CMU ARPABET: R OW1 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
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name
Meaning 4
A village in Caerhun community, Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7591).
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noun
Meaning 5
A second crop of hay (within a growing season).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Synonyms: aftermath, lattermath
Antonyms: foremath, beforemath
noun
Meaning 6
A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
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noun
Meaning 7
Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable
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History
Etymology
From Middle English rown (“rowan tree”).
From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”). The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: отава (otava) — Translations
- Finnish: äpäre — Translations
- Italian: guaime — Translations
- Middle English: rewayn — Translations
- Ottoman Turkish: بوزاغیلق (buzağılık) — Translations