Goddard

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  2. 2
    A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A city in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Fleming County, Kentucky.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, named after Robert H. Goddard.

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"Two teams based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are among the nine science groups selected to study Moon samples that has been sealed for half a century."

Etymology

* As an English surname of Norman origin, name of a 10th-11th-century German saint, from Old High German got (“God”) + harti,herti (“hard, strong”). Brought to England by Normans. Compare Gothard, Godard. * As a French surname, variant of Gaudet.

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