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
An English surname thought to be of Norman (Germanic) origin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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name
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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name
An earldom in the British peerage
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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name
A former brand of English motor car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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name
An unincorporated community in Benton County, Indiana, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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name
An unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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name
A town in the Shire of Central Goldfields, central Victoria, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
A type of hound with broad mouth and large ears, once used for hunting and tracking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot
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Broader terms: inventor, discoverer, artificer, photographer, lensman
History
From Middle English talbot, from Old French talebot (“bandit”); a Norman nickname applied to robbers who blackened their faces to avoid recognition, from Old High German *Talbald (personal name), from Old High German tal (“valley, dale”) + bald (“bold, courageous”).
After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.
Possibly after a Norman family Talbot
