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Reese

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ɹis//

A surname

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname

  2. 2

    A male given name

  3. 3

    A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and later American usage.

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Etymology

* As a given name and British surname generally from Welsh Rhys (literally “ardor”). * Chiefly in North America, the surname may also be from unrelated German Reese (literally “giant”).

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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).