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Weber

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈwɛbər//
  • //ˈwiːbər//
  • //ˈweɪbər//

A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).

    Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!

    Armed with shovels, gloves and headlamps, the team followed their map to the dig site. The vibe was “very piratey,” Dr. Weber said. Dr. Telewski set to digging a neat, squared-off hole.

  2. 2

    A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri; named for local merchant William Weber.

  3. 3

    A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Washington; named for early settler Jacob Weber.

  4. 4

    A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

  5. 5

    A river in Utah, United States; running 201 km from the Uinta Mountains into the Great Salt Lake; named for fur trader and explorer John Henry Weber.

  6. 6

    A hamlet in Tararua district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand; named for surveyor Charles H. Weber.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Weber.

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