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ASTER
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Southern French and German
Southern French and German : from Occitan astor ‘goshawk’ (from Latin acceptor, variant of accipiter ‘hawk’), used as a nickname characterizing a predacious or otherwise hawklike man. The name was taken to southwestern Germany by 17th-century Waldensian refugees from their Alpine valleys above Italian Piedmont.English : variant spelling of Aster.Astor is the name of a famous American family of industrialists and newspaper owners. John Jacob Astor I (1763–1848) was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, the son of a butcher. He followed his brother Henry to New York and made a fortune in the fur trade, which was greatly increased by his descendants in industry, hotels, and newspapers. They built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The great-grandson of John Jacob I, William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), moved to England in 1890, becoming an influential newspaper proprietor and taking British citizenship in 1899. In 1917 he was created Viscount Astor of Hever. His son, the 2nd Viscount (1879–1952), married Nancy Shaw (née Langhorne) (1879–1964), daughter of a VA planter. She became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons as a member of Parliament.
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Latin
Star.
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African, Australian, British, English
Star
Female
English
English name derived from Greek aster, ASTRA means "star."
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English
English : topographic name for someone living to the east of a main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old English ēasterra, in form a comparative of ēast ‘east’ (see East).English : habitational name from a group of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre ‘sheepfold’.English : nickname for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time (Old English ēastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan festival connected with the dawn).Translation of the German family name Oster.
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German
German : nickname from Middle High German agelster ‘magpie’, which was known especially in the Middle Ages for mischievous tricks.English : perhaps a variant of Easter.
Female
English
English name which may be an elaborated form of the Latin word cor, CORDELIA means "heart." This is the name of a legendary queen of the Britons. It is also the name of a moon of Uranus and an asteroid, both of which were named after a Shakespeare character who also bore this name.
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Indian, Sikh
Faithful
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Indian
Angel
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Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu
Mild Fragrance; Humid
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English
English : habitational name from Cornforth in County Durham, named with Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ (see Crane) + ford ‘ford’.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Non-jealous; Wife of the Sage
Boy/Male
Tamil
Veerottam | வீரோதà¯à®¤à®®
Supreme amongst braves
Girl/Female
Indian
Opening, Introduction, Dawn
Boy/Male
Sikh
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Fleshless; Strawless
Female
Spanish
Variant spelling of Spanish Esmeralda, ESMARALDA means "emerald."
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n.
A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.
n.
The eighteenth asteroid.
n.
An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
n.
Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
n.
Asteriated sapphire.
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Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.
n.
A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
n.
Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.
n.
Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
a.
The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.
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Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
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Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
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Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.
n.
An asterisk, or mark of reference.
adv.
In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
n. pl.
Alt. of Asteridea
a.
Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
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Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
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A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.