What is the name meaning of SEXTON. Phrases containing SEXTON
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SEXTON
Boy/Male
British, English
Church Custodian
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English Seaxe ‘Saxons’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : variant of Sexton 1.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a sexton or churchwarden, from Middle English sexteyn ‘sexton’ (Old French secrestein, from Latin sacristanus).Irish (Munster and midlands) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seastnáin ‘descendant of Seastnán, Seasnán’, a personal name meaning ‘bodyguard’, from seasuighim ‘to resist’, ‘to defend’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from Middle English pardun, pardon ‘pardon’, a metonymic occupational name for a pardoner, a person licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences.German : either a cognate of 1 (also for a sexton), from Old French pardon ‘pardon’, or perhaps a nickname from Middle Low German bardūn, Middle High German purdūne ‘pipe’ (instrument), ‘tenor’ (voice).
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English : variant of Coster.The American military officer George Custer (1839–76) was a descendant of a German officer from Hesse by the name of Küster.
SEXTON
SEXTON
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Faith; Confidence
Boy/Male
Tamil
Danavarsh | தநாவரà¯à®·Â
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Very Rich
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Goddess Lakshmi
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Leader; Pioneer
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, named Winterton. The first is named in Old English as ‘farmstead (Old English tūn) of the family or followers (-inga-) of a man called Winter’, while Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk is from Old English winter ‘winter’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, referring perhaps to a place inhabited only in winter.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Strong, Prosperity population, A prophets name
Boy/Male
English
Man. Famous Bearer: late television actor Carroll O'Connor.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Moon Light
Boy/Male
English
Meadow of the hares.. Surname.
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n.
An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
n.
Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.
n.
A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
n.
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
n.
The office of a sexton.
n.
Sextonship.