What is the name meaning of SPENCE. Phrases containing SPENCE
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SPENCE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er.
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Steward
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French
Dispenser; Form of Spencer; Provisioner
Boy/Male
English
Dispenser; provider.
Girl/Female
English
Famous bearer: bestselling romance lovelist LaVyrle Spencer. Origin unknown. May be a derivative...
Boy/Male
English American
Keeper of provisions. Famous Bearer: actor Spencer Tracy.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, SPENCER means "dispenser (of provisions)."
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or dispense’).
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, Jamaican
Dispenser of Provisions; Dispenser; Provisioner
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Muslim
Learned, Intelligent, Another name for God, Grain, Wise
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a winder of wool, from an agent derivative of Middle English winde(n) ‘to wind’ (Old English windan ‘to go’, ‘to proceed’). The verb was also used in the Middle Ages of various weaving and plaiting processes, so that in some cases the name may have referred to a basket or hurdle maker.English : habitational name from any of the various minor places in northern England so called, from Old English vindr ‘wind’ + erg ‘hut’, ‘shelter’, i.e. a shelter against the wind.English : John Winder is recorded in Somerset Co., MD, in 1665. William Henry Winder, born in the county in 1775, was blamed for the military defeat that led to the British burning of Washington, DC, in 1814; his son John Henry Winder (b. 1800) was a confederate general who was commander of southern military prisons.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Noble
Boy/Male
Scottish
Manly; brave. Form of Andrew.
Male
Italian
Italian form of Latin Eustachius, ESTACHIO means "fruitful."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Hymn
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord Rama
Male
African
crocodile (?).
Girl/Female
Sikh
Elixir obtained from holy congregation
Biblical
whom Jehovah searching out; leads,whom Jehovah leads
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n.
A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
n.
A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
n.
One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
n.
The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
n.
A short jacket worn by men and by women.
n.
The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.