What is the name meaning of STAR. Phrases containing STAR
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STAR
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English
English : unexplained. Perhaps a nickname for a stormy-tempered person. Compare Stark.
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English
English : patronymic from Stark.
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English
English : from a diminutive of Stark 1.Altered spelling of German Starke, written thus to preserve the second syllable.
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English
English : unexplained. Compare Starnes.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : apparently a nickname from Middle English sterten ‘to leap or jump’ + up. Reaney and Wilson note that startup was the original form of ‘upstart’ and also the name of a kind of rustic boot and believe these senses may have contributed to the surname, although neither is recorded beofe the 16th century.
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English, German (Starkmann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German (Starkmann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : elaborated form of Stark.
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English
English : variant spelling of Starkey.
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English
English : from Middle English starling ‘starling’ (Old English stærling), probably a nickname for a raucous or voracious person.
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English
English : unexplained (Starns).
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English (mainly Leicestershire)
English (mainly Leicestershire) : habitational name from Starbeck in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Female
English
Elaborated form of English Star, STARLA means "star."
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Star, STARR means "star."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English sterre, starre ‘star’. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the name denoted someone with a streak of white hair. It is possibly also a habitational name, for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a star.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Star 1 and 3.
Boy/Male
English
Star deer.
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English
English : variant of Starr 1.English : from the medieval nickname Starre (see Starr 1) + man ‘servant’, hence an occupational name for the servant of a man known as ‘Star’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various minor places, for example Start Point in Devon, named from Old English steort ‘tail’, in the transferred sense of a promontory or spur of a hill.
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English
English : unexplained.Perhaps an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak Starý ‘old’ (see Stary).
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English
English : patronymic from Stark.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
A Midsummer Night's Dream' Starveling, a tailor, acts as Moonshine in the play within the play.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : altered form of Starling.
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n.
Aptness to start.
a.
Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
adv.
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Startle
imp. & p. p.
of Startle
v. t.
To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
imp. & p. p.
of Starve
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Starve
a.
Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
n.
A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.
adv.
In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
adv.
In a startling manner.
v. t.
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
v. t.
To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
v. t.
To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
n.
The act of starving, or the state of being starved.