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Walter

/ˈwɒltə/US/ˈwɔltɚ/

Walter proper noun: a male given name from the Germanic languages.

Proper noun

Walter

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    • Whitmore. And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
      Suffolk. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by Water I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy...1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, →ISBN, page 13
  2. A surname.
    • Prof Barbara Walter notes in her book How Civil Wars Start that two conditions are key: ethnic factionalism and anocracy – when a country is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic.2023 June 16, “The Guardian view on Trump and political violence: more than words”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023
  3. An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama, United States.
  4. A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.

Walter meaning in Hindi and Bengali

Walter in Hindi

male given name
वालटर vālṭar

Walter in Bengali

male given name
ওয়াল্টার ōẇalṭar

Examples of Walter in a sentence

  • Walter complained about the assault and isolation of the volunteers.2003, Elinor Sisulu, Walter & Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime, page 151:
  • On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post...

Origin of Walter

A Germanic name, from Middle English Walter, from Old Northern French Waltier, from Frankish *Waltheri (compare Old High German Waltheri, which see for more details), from Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“ruler”) + *harjaz (“army, host”). Related to Old English Waldhere. Compare herald and Harold, in which these elements are reversed.

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Words that rhyme with Walter

Questions about Walter

What does Walter mean?
Walter means a male given name from the Germanic languages.
What is Walter in Hindi?
Walter in Hindi is वालटर (vālṭar). See Walter meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Walter in a sentence?
Walter complained about the assault and isolation of the volunteers.
What part of speech is Walter?
Walter is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Walter?
Walter is pronounced /ˈwɒltə/ (UK).

Words near Walter in the dictionary

  1. Walsworth
  2. Walsworths
  3. walt
  4. Walt.
  5. Waltair
  6. Walter
  7. Walter Mitties
  8. Walter Mitty
  9. Walter Mittyish
  10. Walter Mittys
  11. Walter Plinge

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