Chapman
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A dealer or merchant, especially an itinerant one. obsolete
"Done. They are gone: the sum is here in bank, my Face. I would we knew another chapman now would buy 'em outright."
- 2 a male itinerant peddler wordnet
- 3 A purchaser. obsolete
- 1 An English surname originating as an occupation for a merchant.
- 2 A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama.
- 3 A number of places in the United States.; A neighbourhood of Pasadena, California.
- 4 A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Illinois.
- 5 A number of places in the United States.; A township in Clay County, Kansas.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States.; A city in Dickinson County, Kansas.
- 7 A number of places in the United States.; A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
- 8 A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Montana.
- 9 A number of places in the United States.; A township and village therein, in Merrick County, Nebraska.
- 10 A number of places in the United States.; A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
- 11 A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.
- 12 A number of places in the United States.; A township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
- 13 A number of places in the United States.; A borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
- 14 A number of places in the United States.; A township in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
- 15 A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia.
- 16 A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Example
More examples"In the late 1980s and in the 1990s, a couple of my favourite singers were Enya and Tracy Chapman. With headphones and a disc player, I listened to their music at my software workplace, an old brick building, the windows showing the harbour and railroad tracks that went beside the quaint Gastown district of the city of Vancouver, BC. I wore then a heavy dark-blue winter jacket with shoulder straps; it made me look like a student soldier from the 19th century."
Etymology
From Middle English chapman, chepman, meaning merchant or trader; equivalent to cheap (noun) + man. Doublet of Kaufman and Koopman.
From Middle English chapman, chepman, from Old English ċēapmann (“dealer, merchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupamann, equivalent to cheap (noun) + man. Cognate with synonymous West Frisian keapman, Dutch koopman, German Low German Koopmann, German Kaufmann, Swedish köpman.
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