Christian name n. 1.A name given at baptism. Also calledbaptismal name. 2.A name that precedes a person's family name, especially the first name. Usage Note:Because it presupposes that an entire society is Christian, the termChristian namewhen used generically can be taken as offensive in...
as a conventional title of courtesy before a man's Christian name, mid-15c., unaccented variant ofmaster(n.), but without its meaning. As a form of address when the man's name is unknown (often with a tinge of rudeness), from 1760. ...
donna(n.) "a lady," 1660s, from the common title of respect for Italian and Portuguese ladies, equivalent to Spanishdoña, prefixed to the Christian name. The fem. equivalent ofdon(n.). also from1660s Entries linking toDonna don(n.) ...
Meaning: "messenger, servant" Description: This name was transposed from the word for a church officer to a baby name when Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe chose it for their son, after a baseball player ancestor, and Don Johnson followed suit. Its popularity also got a boost fromNashville...
That made learning a matter of national security, which made it of somewhat dubious interest to political leaders — hence the Bible's dominant theme of the suffering servant or enslaved man of wisdom (and the Hebrew idea of wisdom has to do with verifiable science and practical skill, as ...
If you want to give your child this name and they are a female it may be hard for them to understand why you named them that but the meaning is actually pretty in Scotland at least, because it means little hollow so it's not that boyish when you think of it like that....
predicted to come from Nazareth, but by deriving Nazareth from נצר II (nasar II) the Matthean prophecy could be considered a reflection of Isaiah 11:1, 53:2 and Zechariah 3:8 and 6:12, which tell of a shoot or branch (נצר neser) coming from Jesse; a servant named...
Meaning of Deacon One who serves, pastor, a servant or friend, deacon. Origin of Deacon The name 'Deacon' finds its roots in ancient Greece, where the term 'diakonos' referred to a servant or minister. In the early Christian church, deacons were appointed to assist the clergy in various...
in a field which has remained stagnant for centuries and is now infertile and rather smelly. It has been estimated that, if a tool of this sophistication had been avaliable for the past 400 years, the lives of more than 290 councillors and other civil servant types would have been saved2....
The Hebrew meaning of the name Rome Alphabetic writing began to arise in the administrative servant class of the great palatial estates of the late Bronze Age, and the Bronze Age Collapse was most probably helped along by the shift in power away from the illiterate rulers and toward the litera...