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Amber

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  • United Kingdom//ˈæm.bə//
  • United States//ˈæm.bɚ//

A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

    The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was!

    And then she said softly, "Sarah - I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes - "

    A bit raddled, maybe thirty, maybe older, tanned like a hitchhiker, dressed like a road protester, one of those older women still determinedly being a girl; all those eighties feministy still-political women were terribly interested in what Eve did. Hippie name. Amber. Ridiculous name.

  2. 2

    A surname of uncertain origin.

    Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.

Etymology

From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Hindi.

  2. 2

    A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi अंबर (ambar).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.

Etymology

From a pre-Celtic word.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of Ambel (“language”).

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