Lambert
proper nounattested in dialogue
- United States//ˈlæmbɚt//
A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
proper noun
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A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate
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A surname originating as a patronymic.
Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]”
Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
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A number of places in the United States: An inactive village in Scott County, Missouri.
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A number of places in the United States: A settlement in Richland County, Montana.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
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A number of places in the United States: A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota.
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A crater in Moon; A lunar impact crater.
Etymology
From Middle English Lambert, from Old French Lambert, a saint's name (of a Bishop of Maastricht) brought to England by the Normans, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (“land”) + *berht (“bright”). Cognate with Old English Landbeorht, Old High German Lantberht, Dutch Lambrecht.
Forms
- plural
- Lamberts
Lambert · A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
Lamborghini · A surname from Italian.lame · Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet…Lame · A surname.