Keith
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- //kiːθ//
A Scottish surname.
proper noun
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A Scottish surname.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
“I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday.
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rareA female given name from surname.
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A placename: A town in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ4250).
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A placename: A town in Tatiara council area, south-east South Australia.
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A placename: An unincorporated community in Catoosa County, Georgia, United States.
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A placename: An unincorporated community in Noble County, Ohio, United States.
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A placename: An unincorporated community and coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
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A placename: A ghost town in Lincoln, Forest County, Wisconsin, United States.
Etymology
* As a Scottish surname, from the placename in Moray, Scotland, from Scottish Gaelic Cèith, meaning "wood" or "from the battleground," which is probably borrowed from Pictish *ᚉᚓᚈ (cēt) meaning "wood", or a forest, from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd. * As a German surname, from Middle High German kit (“sprout, offspring”) (compare kint).
Forms
- plural
- Keiths