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Ackroyd

Ackroyd proper noun: a surname from Middle English.

Proper noun

Ackroyd (plural Ackroyds)

  1. A surname from Middle English.
    • Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of “The Hurt Locker.2009 June 21, Manohla Dargis, “Action!”, in The New York Times

Forms of Ackroyd

pluralAckroyds

Origin of Ackroyd

Topographic surname, from Middle English ake (“oak”) + royd (“clearing”).

Questions about Ackroyd

What does Ackroyd mean?
Ackroyd means a surname from Middle English.
What part of speech is Ackroyd?
Ackroyd is a proper noun.

Words near Ackroyd in the dictionary

  1. acknowledgments
  2. acknowlege
  3. acknown
  4. acknowne
  5. acknows
  6. Ackroyd
  7. acks
  8. ackshly
  9. ackshually
  10. ackshully
  11. Ackton

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