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Jarvis

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒɑːvɪs//
  • United States//ˈd͡ʒɑɹvɪs//

A surname originating as a patronymic.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname originating as a patronymic.

  2. 2

    A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.

  3. 3

    An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.

  4. 4

    A village in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.

Etymology

A surname derived from a Middle English form of Gervase.

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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).