What is the name meaning of ABO. Phrases containing ABO
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ABO
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English
English : nickname for a tall (Middle English long ‘long’) person who was a good companion (felagh, felaw ‘partner’, ‘comrade’).The name made famous in America by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) of Portland, ME, was introduced to North America by William Longfellow of Yorkshire, England, who settled in Newbury, MA, about 1676.
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English
English : metronymic from the medieval female personal name Madde, a form of Maud (see Mould 1) or Magdalen (see Maudlin).James Madison (1751–1836), 4th President of the U.S. (1809–17), was born in VA, the son of a planter. He was descended from John Madison, a ship’s carpenter from Gloucester, England, who had settled in VA in about 1653.
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English
English : from the Norman French personal name Mahieu, a variant of Mathieu (see Matthew).Anglicized form of French Mailloux.Thomas Mayhew (1593–1682) came to Medford, MA, from Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, about 1632, and subsequently moved to Watertown, MA. In 1642 he established a settlement on Martha’s Vineyard, with his son Thomas, who was the first English missionary to the Indians of New England.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ + lavedi ‘lady’. Reaney describes this as an obvious nickname for a philanderer; but perhaps it denoted a man who loved a woman above his social status, given the connotation of high status carried by the word lavedi.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.According to family lore, this name was brought to the southern States by a certain Isaac I. Kirksey in the second half of the 17th century. He is believed to have been born in about 1660, probably in one of the midland counties of England.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Abbott, ABOTT means "father."
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English
English : patronymic from Mathew; a variant spelling of Matthews. In the U.S., this form has absorbed some European cognates such as German Matthäus.Among the earliest bearers of the name in North America was Samuel Mathews (c.1600–c.1657), who came to VA from London in about 1618. He established a plantation at the mouth of the Warwick River, which was at first called Mathews Manor; later its name was changed to Denbigh. He was one of the most powerful and influential men in the early affairs of the colony. He (or possibly his son, who bore the same name) was governor of the colony from 1657 until his death in 1660.
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English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German
English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German : from a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew) or any of its many cognates, for example Norman French Maheu.English, French, Dutch, and German : from a nickname or personal name taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then.English : nickname from Middle English may ‘young man or woman’.Irish (Connacht and Midlands) : when not of English origin (see 1–3 above), this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name or byname meaning ‘honorable’, ‘proud’.French : habitational name from any of various places called May or Le May.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Mayen, a place in western Germany.Americanized spelling of cognates of 1 in various European languages, for example Swedish Ma(i)j.Chinese : possibly a variant of Mei 1, although this spelling occurs more often for the given name than for the surname.Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, is named after the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Abbott, ABOT means "father."
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : topographic name from Old English land, Middle High German lant, ‘land’, ‘territory’. This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a forest glade, Middle English, Old French la(u)nde, or a habitational name from Launde in Leicestershire or Laund in West Yorkshire, which are named with this word.Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named, from Old Norse land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (see 1 above).
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English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : habitational name from Look in Puncknowle, Dorset, named in Old English with lūce ‘enclosure’.English : possibly a variant of Luck 3.Northern English and Scottish : from a vernacular pet form of Lucas.Dutch (van Look) : topographic name from look ‘enclosure’ or habitational name from a place named with this word.Thomas Look (b. c. 1622) was in Lynn, MA, by 1646. His son, also called Thomas (b. 1646), moved to Martha’s Vineyard about 1670.
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English and French (Léonard)
English and French (Léonard) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses.Irish (Fermanagh) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan.Americanized form of Italian Leonardo or cognate forms in other European languages.The French Léonard family were at Château Richer, Quebec, by 1698, having come from Maine, France.
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Norwegian
Norwegian : habitational name from any of about 20 places so named for having a farmhouse with an upper story (see Loftus).English : variant of Loftus.
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English
English : perhaps a deliberate alteration of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead in Surrey, which is named from Celtic lēd ‘gray’ + rïd ‘ford’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlið ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.Zachariah Leatherwood, son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William Co., VA, about 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg Co., SC, with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABOOKSIGUN means "wildcat."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a habitational name from Kitcham in Devon, but more likely a reduced form of Kitchenham, a habitational name from a place so named in East Sussex.Edward Ketcham (d. 1655) immigrated from Cambridge, England, to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1629–30, and subsequently moved to Stratford, CT.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a stream, Middle English atte borne ‘at the bourn’. The preposition may alternatively be Anglo-Norman French a, likewise meaning ‘at’.Samuel Aborn came to MA from England in 1636; his name is also spelled Eborne.
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English and Irish
English and Irish : variant of Mayhew.Variant of French Mailhot.A William Mayo born in Wiltshire, England, c. 1684 was a surveyor who settled in VA about 1623 and helped survey the VA-NC boundary and found Richmond and Petersburg, VA. [newpara]The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, was founded by William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911), who immigrated to the U.S. from England, in 1845, and his sons, all gifted and innovative physicians and surgeons.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, French, and Dutch
English, German, French, and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a cloak maker or a nickname for someone who wore a cloak of a particularly conspicuous design, from Anglo-Norman, Middle High German, Old French, and Middle Dutch mantel ‘cloak’, ‘coat’ (Late Latin mantellus).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably from German Mantel or Yiddish mantl ‘coat’, which are related to 1 above.German : topographic name from Middle High German mantel ‘Scots pine’.
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English (Gloucestershire and South Wales)
English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : most probably from the Norman personal name Luce (a vernacular form of Latin Lucia or Lucius). This is generally a female name, although male bearers are found in France. It was borne by a young Sicilian maiden and an aged Roman widow, both of whom were martyred under Diocletian and are venerated as saints.English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : Alternatively, the surname may be a variant of Lewis.English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : American bearers of this surname are descended from Henry Luce (1640–c.1688), who came to Scituate, MA, from south Wales in or before 1666, and moved to Martha’s Vineyard, MA, in about 1670. He had many prominent descendants.
ABO
ABO
Female
Bulgarian
, beautiful peace (or world).
Male
Chamoru
, land.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Men of anger; or of fury; or of liberty.
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Name of a Maharshi
Girl/Female
Australian, Irish
Melancholy
Girl/Female
Tamil
Prasutha | பà¯à®°à®¸à¯à®¤à®¾
Flower
Female
Egyptian
, the sister of the royal scribe User-hat.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : unexplained.
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Sigvarðr, SIGVARD means "victory guard."Â
Girl/Female
English American Greek Latin Spanish
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ABO
adv.
More than; as, above five hundred were present.
prep.
Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)
n.
That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
adv.
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time.
n.
The quality of being abortive.
adv.
In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
n.
A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
n.
A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
v.
Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
a.
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice.
a.
Alt. of Above-named
adv.
Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.
n.
Abortion.
prep.
Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach.
adv.
In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
adv.
In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.
imp. & p. p.
of Abound
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Abound
adv.
To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
adv.
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.