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Chapman

//ˈt͡ʃæpmən// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname originating as an occupation for a merchant.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States.; A neighbourhood of Pasadena, California.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Illinois.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States.; A township in Clay County, Kansas.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States.; A city in Dickinson County, Kansas.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States.; A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Montana.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States.; A township and village therein, in Merrick County, Nebraska.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States.; A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States.; A township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States.; A borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States.; A township in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia.
  11. 16
    A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a male itinerant peddler wordnet
  3. 3
    A purchaser. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English chapman, chepman, meaning merchant or trader; equivalent to cheap (noun) + man. Doublet of Kaufman and Koopman.

Etymology 2

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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