Adair

name

name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar.
  2. 2
    A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.

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"It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances."

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Adair County

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