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Anders

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

  2. 2

    A male given name from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish, equivalent to English Andrew.

    Even at a time when Anders Behring Breivik is on trial in Norway for killing 77 people in a terror attack last year – and the remote possibility he could end up at Bastoy or a similar prison some day – Nilsen and others stand up for this brand of justice.

    Councilmember Anders Urbom says he was quoting someone to describe where he thinks the country is heading.

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Anders.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).