Aaron
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The leader of a group of thieves. archaic
- 1 The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran.
"And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and hee said, Is not Aaron the Leuite thy brother? I know that he can speake well."
- 2 A male given name from Hebrew.
"- - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown!"
- 3 A surname transferred from the given name.
Example
More examples"Aaron was coldly killed by Mary."
Etymology
From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾAhărōn), of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian ꜥḥꜣ rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. Doublet of Harun.
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