What is the name meaning of WRIGHT. Phrases containing WRIGHT
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English
English : occupational name for someone who chopped up wood into tinder, Middle English dethewright, from dethe ‘fuel’, ‘tinder’ + wright ‘maker’.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English wryhta/wyrhta, WRIGHT means "craftsman."
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English
English : occupational name for a maker of wheels, from Middle English whele ‘wheel’ (Old English hwēol) + wyrhta ‘wright’. See also Wheeler.John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679), clergyman, came to Boston, MA, from Lincolnshire, England in 1636. He was banished from Massachusettes for his support of his sister-in-law, Anne Hutchinson, in the antinomian controversy; he set up a community at Exeter, NH.
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English
English : occupational name for a maker of carts, from Middle English cart(e) + wright ‘craftsman’ (see Wright). The surname is attested from the late 13th century, although the vocabulary word does not occur before the 15th century.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a boat builder, from Middle English bot(e) ‘boat’ + wright ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’.
Boy/Male
English American Anglo Saxon
Craftsman.
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English
English : occupational name for a chest maker, from Middle English, Old French arc ‘chest’, ‘bin’ + Middle English wright ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’ (see Wright).
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English American
Craftsman; wagon-wright; wagon driver. Famous Bearer: U.S. Actor John Wayne.
Boy/Male
Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Craftsman; Carpenter
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English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a maker of carts or wagons, Middle English waynwright (see Wayne + Wright).
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Wright.
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American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, Latin
Laurel Tree; Sweet Bay Tree Symbolic of Honor and Victory; The Bay; Laurel Plant
Boy/Male
American, British, English, Gaelic, Irish, Scottish
Slender; Thin; Variant of Blaine
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently a habitational name, from an unidentified place, perhaps in East Anglia, where the surname is most common today.
Girl/Female
Latin Spanish
Modest.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Celtic, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Irish, Swedish
Valley; Valley in the Mountains; From Glen; Glen is a Narrow Valley Between Hills
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess Lakshmi, The Sun
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Telugu
Prosperity; To be Successful; To Succeed; To Grow; To Increase; To Make Gain
Girl/Female
Hindu
Sign of wealth
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian, Kannada
Form of Quintana
Boy/Male
Armenian
Farmer.
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n.
A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
n.
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
n.
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.