What is the name meaning of WEAR. Phrases containing WEAR
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WEAR
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + aker, acre ‘piece of tilled land’, or a habitational name from any of various minor places so named, such as Long Acre Farm, Tyne and Wear, or Long Acres Farm in North Yorkshire.
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English
English : variant of Wear.
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English
English : from the Old English personal name Hereweard, composed of the elements here ‘army’ + weard ‘guard’, which was borne by an 11th-century thane of Lincolnshire, leader of resistance to the advancing Normans. The Old Norse cognate Hervarðr was also common and, particularly in the Danelaw, it may in part lie behind the surname.Welsh : variant of Havard.John Harvard (1607–38), who gave his name to Harvard College, was the son of a London butcher. He inherited considerable property, and emigrated to MA in 1637. On his death he bequeathed half his estate and the whole of his library to the newly founded college at Cambridge, MA.
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Tamil
Lord Shiva, One who wears cobra
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Tamil
Peetavasane | பிதாவாஸநே
Wearing yellow attire signifying purity and wisdom
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Tamil
Nagabhushan | நாகபà¯à®·à®£
One who wears snakes as ornaments, Lord Shiva
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Kundalin | கà¯à®‚டலீந
One who wears earrings
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English
English : variant spelling of Wear.
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English
English : habitational name probably from Killingworth in Tyne and Wear, so named from an Old English personal name Cylla + -ing- ‘associated with’ + worð ‘enclosure’.
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English
English : probably a variant of Gatward, an occupational name for a gate keeper or goatherd, from Old English geat ‘gate’ or gÄt ‘goat’ + weard ‘ward’, ‘keeper’.
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Americanized form of Geman Wehry.English
Americanized form of Geman Wehry.English : nickname from Middle English wery ‘wicked’, ‘acursed’ (from Old English wearg).
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : occupational name for someone in charge of a mill, from Old English mylen ‘mill’ + weard ‘guardian’. In southern England and the West Midlands this was a standard medieval term for a miller. Compare Miller.
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English
English : variant spelling of Job.English : nickname from Old French job, joppe ‘sorry wretch’, ‘fool’ (perhaps a transferred application of the name of the Biblical character).English : from Middle English jubbe, jobbe ‘vessel containing four gallons’, hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a cooper. It could also have been a nickname for a heavy drinker or for a tubby person.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller (or nickname for a wearer) of the long woolen garment known in Middle English and Old French as a jube or jupe. This word ultimately derives from Arabic.
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English (Northumbria)
English (Northumbria) : topographic name for someone who lived by the Wear river in northern England. The river name is ancient, occuring in the form Vedra in Ptolemy’s Geographia; it is probably a Celtic word meaning ‘water’.English (Northumbria) : topographic name for someone who lived near a dam or weir, a variant spelling of Ware 1, or a habitational name from a place called Weare, in Devon and Somerset, from Old English wær, wer ‘weir’.
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English
English : nickname from the vocabulary word lord, presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English hlÄford, earlier hlÄf-weard, literally ‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for providing food for his dependants.Irish : English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin (see McKiernan).French : nickname from Old French l’ord ‘the dirty one’.Possibly an altered spelling of Laur.The French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada, around 1760.
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Tamil
Lord Shiva, One who wears cobra
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : of uncertain origin. The most plausible suggestion is that it is a nickname for someone who was in the habit of wearing gloves, from Old French ganté, a derivative of gant ‘glove’ (see Gant) or an occupational name for a glove-maker, Old French gantier. However, a certain Hugh de Gandy was High Sheriff of Devon in 1167; it is possible that his surname is a habitational name from some unidentified place in France or even from Ghent in Flanders (see Gaunt 1).
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Pita Vasase | பிதா வாஸஸே
One wearing yellow robes
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Scottish and English
Scottish and English : variant of Lockhart 1 and 2.English : from Middle English Locward ‘keeper of the fold’, from Old English, Middle English loc ‘enclosure’, ‘fold’ + Middle English ward ‘guardian’, ‘keeper’ (Old English weard)
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English
English : occupational name for a keeper of swine, from Old English fÅr ‘hog’, ‘pig’ (compare Forman 1) + weard ‘guardian’ (see Ward 1).
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a.
That may be wearied.
v. t.
To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
n.
The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
v. i.
To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.
v. t.
To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
a.
Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.
n.
The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
a.
Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
superl.
Causing weariness; tiresome.
v. t.
To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
a.
Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.
v. i.
To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
v. t.
To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Weary
n.
The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
a.
Incapable of being wearied.
adv.
In a weary manner.
superl.
Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
n.
One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Weary