What is the name meaning of STAFF. Phrases containing STAFF
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : unexplained. Perhaps a much altered spelling of Scottish Urquhart.
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English (Staffordshire and Shropshire)
English (Staffordshire and Shropshire) : habitational name from Titley in Hereford, named from an Old English personal name Titta + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ .
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English (mainly Lancashire and Staffordshire)
English (mainly Lancashire and Staffordshire) : patronymic from Hodge.
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Swedish
Swedish form of Greek Stephanos, STAFFAN means "crown."
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English (Shropshire and Staffordshire)
English (Shropshire and Staffordshire) : unexplained.
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire called Wetwood, from Old English wēt, wǣt ‘wet’, ‘damp’ + wudu ‘wood’.
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English (Staffordshire and Derbyshire)
English (Staffordshire and Derbyshire) : habitational name from Blurton in Staffordshire, so named with an Old English word blÅr, possibly ‘hill’, + Old English tÅ«n ‘settlement’.
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : variant spelling of Beeby.
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English (mainly Staffordshire)
English (mainly Staffordshire) : probably from a variant of the medieval personal name Selwei (see Selway).
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English (Staffordshire) : unexplained.
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : variant of Leath.
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English (chiefly Cheshire, Staffordshire, and southern Lancashire)
English (chiefly Cheshire, Staffordshire, and southern Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Brindley, from Old English berned ‘burnt’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : habitational name, probably from a place called Ardley in Oxfordshire, named in Old English as ‘the clearing (lēeah) of Eardwulf’.
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : habitational name from Ellesmere in Shropshire, named from the Old English personal name Elli + Old English mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’.
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English (mainly Norfolk)
English (mainly Norfolk) : from Middle English staf ‘rod’, ‘staff’; a nickname for a tall, thin person, or a metonymic occupational name for anyone who carried a staff of office, a reminder of his right to inflict physical discipline.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places in England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ + ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first element Old English stÄn ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is probably named with Old English stÄ“or ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.
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English (Staffordshire)
English (Staffordshire) : from the Welsh personal name Pasgen, a derivative of Latin Pascentius.
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English (mainly Staffordshire)
English (mainly Staffordshire) : habitational name from Howle in Shropshire, named from Old English hugol ‘hillock’, ‘mound’.
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English (Staffordshire) : unexplained.
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English (Staffordshire) : unexplained. Probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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French
French feminine form of Roman Latin Zephyrinus, ZÉPHYRINE means "west wind."
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German
Little and Womanly; Female Version of Charles
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English
English : variant spelling of Russell.
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Indian, Sanskrit
Peacock
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Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Concern
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English (Cheshire)
English (Cheshire) : perhaps a habitational name from Cromwell in Nottinghamshire or Cromwell Bottom in West Yorkshire, both named from Old English crumb ‘crooked’ + wella ‘stream’, ‘spring’. The latter is recorded as Crumbel (1251) and Crumble (1566).Probably an altered spelling of German Krumpel or Krümpel, a nickname for someone with a deformity, from Middle High German krum(p) ‘deformed’, ‘crooked’; skeletal deformities were common in the Middle Ages, often as a result of rickets.
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Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh
Purifying
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Hebrew, Irish, Swedish
God will Add; God will Increase
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Egyptian Muslim
He shall add.
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Son of Farr
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n.
A wand or staff of authority or justice.
n.
A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
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of Staff
n.
A baton, or military staff of command.
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of Staff
n.
A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
n.
A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
v. i.
An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
n.
The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
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An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
n.
An attendant bearing a staff.
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Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
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of Staffman
v. t.
To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
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A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
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One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
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A staff of authority.
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A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
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One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
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The vane of a cross-staff.