Drake
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- //dɹeɪk//
An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
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An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
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An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”. Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
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An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
Drake was not at all what I'd anticipated. His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.
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A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England; named for aqueduct Drake's Leat, itself for Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth at the time of its construction.
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A locale in the United States. A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.
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A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
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A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Illinois.
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A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
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A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for Missouri statesman Charles D. Drake.
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A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in South Carolina.
Étymologie
* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun drake meaning "male duck" and "dragon." * As a German surname, from Low German drake (“dragon”), related to the above. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized/West Flemish variant of Draak, also related to the above.
Drake · An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
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