Anthony
name ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A male given name from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
""...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should Anthony look?" "You look like Anthony," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn.""
- 2 A surname originating as a patronymic.
"The online fundraising site GiveSendGo continues to face criticism over a page that has raised more than $320,000 for Karmelo Anthony, the teen arrested for stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas track meet last week."
- 3 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.
- 4 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
- 5 A place in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Harper County, Kansas.
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- 6 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
- 7 A place in the United States:; A city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, bordering onto Anthony, Texas.
- 8 A place in the United States:; A town in El Paso County, Texas, bordering onto Anthony, New Mexico.
Example
More examples"Tell me about yourself, please, Sir Anthony."
Etymology
From Latin Antōnius, name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- suggested by an unetymological association with Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)). The Roman clan name is of uncertain etymology, but is not Greek or Hebrew; most likely of Etruscan origin, possibly derived from Ani, the Etruscan god of the sky. Doublet of Antoine.
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