Norris

proper nounattested in dialogue

United States//ˈnɔɹɪs//
//ˈnɑɹɪs//

A surname from Old French.

proper noun

1
A surname from Old French.
2
A male given name transferred from the surname.
3
A number of places in the United States: A village in Fulton County, Illinois.
4
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri.
5
A number of places in the United States: An abandoned village in Cedar County, Nebraska.
6
A number of places in the United States: A town in Pickens County, South Carolina.
7
A number of places in the United States: A city in Anderson County, Tennessee.

Etymology

An Anglo-Norman surname, from Old French norreis (“a northerner, a migrant from the north”). More at French norois.

norman · A wooden bar, or iron pin.Norman · A native or inhabitant of Normandy, France.Normandy · An administrative region, historical province, and medieval…

Norris · A surname from Old French.

north · The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of…North · Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal…northeast · The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical 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.