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PLEAS
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, PLEASANT means simply "pleasant."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English, Old French grace ‘charm’, ‘pleasantness’ (Latin gratia).English : from the female personal name Grace, which was popular in the Middle Ages. This seems in the first instance to have been from a Germanic element grīs ‘gray’ (see Grice 1), but was soon associated by folk etymology with the Latin word meaning ‘charm’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Devon, Kent, and West Yorkshire. According to Ekwall, the first element of these place names is respectively Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and mearð ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th century.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire, so named from Old English fæger ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname from Old French mignot ‘dainty’, ‘pleasing’.English and French : from Minnota, a pet form of the female personal name Minna. This was originally a Germanic personal name from Old High German minna ‘love’, but later it was also used as a short form of Willemina, a feminine version of William.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places called Harwell in south Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire) and Nottinghamshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘spring or stream by or from the gray one’, from HÄra ‘the gray’ (here referring to a certain hill) + wella; while the latter was named from Old English hÄ“ore, hÌ„re ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘stream’.
Surname or Lastname
English (found chiefly in the West Midlands and in Ireland)
English (found chiefly in the West Midlands and in Ireland) : habitational name from Hodnet in Shropshire, or any of various places called Hoddnant in Wales. The place names are from Welsh hawdd ‘pleasant’, ‘peaceful’ + nant ‘valley’, ‘stream’.
Female
English
English form of Old French Plaisance, PLEASANCE means "pleasant."
Boy/Male
Tamil
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Cheerful, Pleased, Happy
Boy/Male
Tamil
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Cheerful, Pleased, Happy
Surname or Lastname
Northern Irish
Northern Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mealláin ‘descendant of Meallán’, a personal name that is a diminutive of meall ‘pleasant’.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Meulan in Seine-et-Oise.Dutch (van Mellon) : habitational name from Millun bij Keulen.Thomas and Sarah Jane Mellon came to Pittsburgh, PA, from Lower Castletown, Tyrone, Ireland, in 1818. Their grandson, the industrialist and financier Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937) is remembered not only as a businessman but also as an art collector. He served as secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone with a blithe or happy disposition, from Middle English merry ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’ (Old English myr(i)ge ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh, Ó Meardha ‘descendant of Mearadhach’, ‘descendant of Meardha’, personal names derived from an adjective meaning ‘lively’, ‘wild’, ‘wanton’.French : from a vernacular form of the personal name Médéric, derived from a Germanic personal name conposed of mecht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + rīc ‘power’; ‘ruler’.French : habitational name from Merry in Yonne or Merri in Orne, derived from the Latin personal name Matrius + the suffix -acum.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Merryfield in Devon and Cornwall or Mirfield in West Yorkshire, all named with the Old English elements myrige ‘pleasant’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Field).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Old English græg ‘gray’. In Scotland and Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘gray’ (see Reavey). In North America this name has assimilated names with similar meaning from other European languages.English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gratus, meaning ‘welcome’, ‘pleasing’ + the locative suffix -acum.French and Swiss French : habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône and Le Gray in Seine-Maritime, both in France, or from Gray-la-ville in Switzerland, or a regional name from the Swiss canton of Graubünden.A leading English family called Grey, holders of the earldom of Stamford, can be traced to Henry de Grey, who was granted lands at Thurrock, Essex, by Richard I (1189–99). They once held great power, and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk (1517–54), married a granddaughter of Henry VII. Because of this he felt entitled to claim the throne for his daughter, Lady Jane Grey (1537–54), after the death of Henry VIII. For this, and for his part in Wyatt’s rebellion, both he and his daughter were beheaded.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English douce, dowce ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’ (Old French dolz, dous, from Latin dulcis). This was also in occasional use as a female personal name in the Middle Ages, and some examples may derive from it.Italian : from duce ‘leader’, ‘chief’, probably applied as a nickname.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of several minor places named with the Old English elements myrige ‘pleasant’ + hyll ‘hill’.
Girl/Female
French
Pleasure.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the medieval female personal name Pleasant (Old French Plaisant) (see Plaisance 1).
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly West Country)
English (mainly West Country) : nickname for a pleasant and affable man, from Middle English hende ‘courteous’, ‘kind’, ‘gentle’. Hendy was also sometimes used as a personal name in the Middle Ages and some examples of the surname may derive from this rather than from the nickname. The surname is also found in Ireland.
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Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Cornice or Eaves
Girl/Female
Spanish
Bright; shining and gentle; famous.
Girl/Female
Indian
Knowledge
Girl/Female
Indian
Happy, Full of Joy
Boy/Male
Muslim
Favor, Grace, Kindness
Boy/Male
Tamil
Small
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, German, Spanish
Variant of Gerald Rules by the Spear; Form of Gerald; Spear Warrior; Spear Ruler
Girl/Female
Indian
Precious
Girl/Female
Bengali, Indian
The Name of a River
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Wish; Desire
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v. t.
To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
a.
Devoid of pleasure.
a.
Experiencing pleasure.
v. t.
To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.
a.
Affording pleasure.
a.
Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners.
n.
An object of pleasure.
n.
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God.
v. t.
To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.
a.
Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.
n.
That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.
n.
One who pleases or gratifies.
imp. & p. p.
of Pleasure
v. t.
To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
v. i.
To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.
v. i.
To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pleasure
n.
A person devoted to worldly pleasure.
n.
A pleasure seeker.
v. i.
To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.