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Tasman

/ˈtæzmən/

Tasman proper noun: a surname from Dutch. Also the ellipsis of Tasman Sea.

Proper noun

Tasman

  1. A surname from Dutch.
    • That his Maria should become Mrs. Tasman, he knew very well was a thing not for a moment to be thought of. Whoever won his daughter must have wealth and a patent of nobility.1854, Charles Dickens, Household words, Volume 8
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A region and territorial authority in the north of the South Island, New Zealand; in full, Tasman District.
  4. A coastal settlement in Tasman District, New Zealand.
  5. A local government area in south-east Tasmania, Australia; in full, Tasman Council.

Also used as

Tasman is also the ellipsis of Tasman Sea.

Origin of Tasman

Borrowed from Dutch Tasman, from Old Dutch tas (“purse, pouch”) + man (“person, man”). The places are named after Abel Tasman.

Words formed from Tasman

Questions about Tasman

What does Tasman mean?
Tasman means a surname from Dutch.
What part of speech is Tasman?
Tasman is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tasman?
Tasman is pronounced /ˈtæzmən/.

Words near Tasman in the dictionary

  1. Taslanizes
  2. Taslanizing
  3. taslet
  4. taslets
  5. TASM
  6. Tasman
  7. Tasman Sea
  8. tasmancin
  9. Tasmania
  10. Tasmaniac
  11. Tasmanian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tasman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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