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English
English : metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a meat or fish market, from Old English scamol ‘bench (on which meat was laid out for sale)’.English : possibly from an unattested Middle English personal name, Skammel, a diminutive of an Old Norse byname from skammr ‘short’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone living by a bink, a northern dialect term for a flat raised bank of earth or a shelf of flat stone suitable for sitting on. The word is a northern form of modern English bench.Variant of Polish Binek, itself a variant of Bieniek.
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English : topographic name from northern Middle English bank(e) ‘hillside slope’, ‘riverbank’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (see Banks).Scottish : habitational name from Bankier in Stirlingshire.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Polish bankier ‘banker’.German (Bänker) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German banc ‘bench’, ‘counter’ (see Bank).
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German or Middle Low German banc, or Yiddish bank ‘bench’, ‘table’, ‘counter’, in any of various senses, e.g. a metonymic occupational name for anyone whose work required a bench or counter, for example a butcher, baker, court official, or money changer.Danish and Swedish : topographic name from bank ‘(sand)bank’ or a habitational name from a farm named with this word.Danish and Swedish : from bank ‘noise’, hence a nickname for a loud or noisy person. Compare Bang.Danish : habitational name from the German place name Bänkau.English : probably a variant of Banks.Americanized spelling of Polish Bąk, literally ‘horsefly’; perhaps a nickname for an irritating person.Hungarian (Bánk) : from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bán.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a bank or raised piece of ground, Middle English benche (from Old English benc ‘bench’). This transferred sense of the word is not well attested, however, and some other sense of the word may be in question; perhaps one who sat on a bench in a hall, i.e. a retainer.Possibly an altered spelling of German Bensch.
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
Arabic, Indian
Beautiful
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sikh, Telugu, Traditional
One who Attracts the World
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Hindu
Brilliant
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British, English
From the Warrior's Settlement
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, English, German, Swedish
Resolute Protector; Will-helmet; Will; Desire; Helmet; Protection; Protect
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Muslim
Pathan. Leader.
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Arabic
Painter; Artist
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Hindu
Sweetness
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Irish
Hero.
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n.
The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
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The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
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A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
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A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.
v. t.
To furnish with benches.
imp. & p. p.
of Bench
n.
A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
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A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
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One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
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A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
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A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
v. t.
To place on a bench or seat of honor.
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A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bench
v. i.
In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
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One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.
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Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
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of Bench