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Travers

proper nounattested in dialogue

A surname originating as an occupation.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname originating as an occupation.

  2. 2

    A place name: A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.

  3. 3

    A place name: An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.

  4. 4

    A place name: A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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