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Reep

Reep proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Reep (plural Reeps)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Reep

pluralReeps

Origin of Reep

Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”). Compare Roper, Reeb. Also an English metonymic occupational surname for a porter or a basket maker, from Middle English hrip (“basket”), from Old Norse hrip, from Proto-Germanic *hrepaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend”). Also as an English surname, from the verb reap. Compare Ripper.

Questions about Reep

What does Reep mean?
Reep means a surname.
What part of speech is Reep?
Reep is a proper noun.

Words near Reep in the dictionary

  1. reenvision
  2. reenvisioned
  3. reenvisioning
  4. reenvisionings
  5. reenvisions
  6. Reep
  7. Reepham
  8. reepidermalization
  9. reepithelialisation
  10. reepithelialise
  11. reepithelialised

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