Crusoe

name

name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French, famously held by

    "Robinson Crusoe, the main character in the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe."

  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.

Example

More examples

"Mr. Walter Scott said: "Perhaps there is no work in the English language, which is more universally read and admired than the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.""

Etymology

Perhaps from French Crusiaux, a topographic surname from a diminutive of creux (“hollow”), or alternatively a variant of Croiseau, a habitational surname.

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