Abram
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of Abraham man UK, obsolete
- 1 auburn obsolete
- 2 insane; mad UK, obsolete
"He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man."
- 3 naked. UK, obsolete
"She's all Abram"
- 1 Abraham (prophet in the Old Testament). countable, uncountable
"And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came."
- 2 A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SD6001). countable, uncountable
- 3 A male given name from Hebrew. countable, uncountable
- 4 A habitational surname from Old English. countable, uncountable
- 5 A surname from Hebrew [in turn originating as a patronymic]. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A census-designated place in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, named after Abram Dillard. countable, uncountable
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More examples"Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978."
Etymology
Alteration of auburn.
From Hebrew אַבְרָם (ʾaḇrām).
From Old English Eadburh's (a woman's name) hām.
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