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Lambert
//ˈlæmbɚt// name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname. countable
"At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate"
- 2 A surname originating as a patronymic. countable
"Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]”"
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Quitman County, Mississippi. countable, uncountable
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; An inactive village in Scott County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; A settlement in Richland County, Montana. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. countable, uncountable
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota. countable, uncountable
- 8 A crater in Moon; A lunar impact crater. uncountable
Noun
- 1 a cgs unit of luminance; the brightness of a surface that emits one lumen per square centimetre
- 2 a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English Lambert, from Old French Lambert, a saint's name (of a Bishop of Maastricht) brought to England by the Normans, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (“land”) + *berht (“bright”). Cognate with Old English Landbeorht, Old High German Lantberht, Dutch Lambrecht.
Etymology 2
From Lambert; Named for Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
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