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Earnshaw

Earnshaw proper noun: a habitational surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Earnshaw (plural Earnshaws)

  1. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Earnshaw

pluralEarnshaws

Origin of Earnshaw

Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English earn (“eagle”) + healh (“nook, angle, recess”). Equivalent to erne + haugh.

Questions about Earnshaw

What does Earnshaw mean?
Earnshaw means a habitational surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Earnshaw?
Earnshaw is a proper noun.

Words near Earnshaw in the dictionary

  1. earns one's keep
  2. earns one's spurs
  3. earns one's stripes
  4. earns one's wings
  5. earns out
  6. Earnshaw
  7. Earnshaw's theorem
  8. Earnshaws
  9. earnt
  10. earnt a crust
  11. earnt one's corn

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