name
Meaning 1
A surname from Middle English.
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Standard Lemma guide
underwood
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Pronunciation
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/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌwʊd/
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CMU ARPABET: AH1 N D ER0 W UH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A suburb of Plympton, City of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5356).
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Meaning 3
A village in Selston parish, Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4750).
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Meaning 4
A settlement in Bishton community, City of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3889).
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Meaning 5
A hamlet in Hook community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9812).
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Meaning 6
A community in the city of Markham, Rural Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
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Meaning 7
A village in Kincardine municipality, Bruce County, Ontario.
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Meaning 8
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Monroe township, Clark County, Indiana.
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Meaning 9
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Norwalk Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
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Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
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Meaning 11
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Redwood County, Minnesota.
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Meaning 12
A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of North Hudson, Essex County, New York.
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Meaning 13
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in McLean County, North Dakota.
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Meaning 14
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Skamania County, Washington.
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Meaning 15
A suburb of the City of Logan, south-east Queensland, Australia.
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Meaning 16
A rural locality in the City of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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noun
Meaning 17
Underbrush, undergrowth.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17, What improvement the stirring of the ground about the roots of Oaks is to the Trees I have already hinted; and yet in Copses where they stand warm, and so thickn’d with the under wood, as this culture cannot be practis’d, they prove in time to be goodly Trees.
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noun
Meaning 18
A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.
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noun
Meaning 19
the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
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Broader terms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
Narrower terms: groundcover, ground cover
History
Etymology
The name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English. The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood. The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English wood English underwood From under- + wood.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: ундерву́д (undervúd) — typewriter
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