What is the name meaning of GAYE. Phrases containing GAYE
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GAYE
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Hebrew
Glad; Lighthearted; Happy; Joyous
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Lighthearted
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Gay, GAYE means "happy."
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Gaylord, GAYELORD means "dandy."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Gay.
Girl/Female
French American
From the Old French word 'gai', meaning merry or light-hearted.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname for a lighthearted or cheerful person, from Middle English, Old French gai. In Middle English the term could also mean ‘wanton’, ‘lascivious’ and this sense may lie behind the surname in some instances.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from places in Normandy called Gaye, from an early proprietor bearing a Germanic personal name cognate with Wade.probably from the Catalan personal name Gai (Latin Gaius), or in some cases a nickname from Catalan gay ‘cheerful’.Variant of German Gau.North German : from a Frisian personal name Gay.A Congregational clergyman and one of the forerunners of the Unitarian movement in New England, Ebenezer Gay (1696–1787) was born in Dedham, MA, which had been founded by his grandfather, John Gay, who came to America from Wiltshire, England, about 1630 and settled in Watertown, MA. Ebenezer’s great-grandson Howard was editor of the American Anti-Slavery Standard.
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Boy/Male
Anglo, British, English
Name of a King
Boy/Male
Latin
Son of Aeneas.
Girl/Female
Norse Dutch German
Poetry.
Male
Egyptian
, a scribe of Amen-Ra.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Moon
Girl/Female
Australian, Latin
Youthful; Female Version of Julius
Boy/Male
Biblical
He that praises.
Girl/Female
Indian
Beautiful
Male
Iranian/Persian
(مريخ) Arabic and Persian name for the planet Mars, possibly MIRRIKH means "death, slaughter." Also spelled Merikh.
Boy/Male
Hindu
The Sun
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n.
Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
n.
A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
a.
Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.
a.
The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.
adv.
In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
n.
Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness.
n.
Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.
a.
Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
n.
The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
v.
Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
n.
The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.
v. t.
To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
n.
The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
n.
Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.
n.
Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.
pl.
of Gayety
superl.
Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.
n.
The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
n.
The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.
n.
That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.