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Wren
Definitions
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname.
- 2 A surname transferred from the nickname.; Sir Christopher Wren, English architect
"The Wren church did not cross the Atlantic at once."
- 3 A male or female given name from English from the noun wren. rare
""What's ironic," Alexandra said, "is that Mother named her Wren because as a newborn she reminded Mother of a shy bird. Little did she know.""
- 1 Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).
- 2 A female member of the Royal Navy (a member of the WRNS) UK, informal
"The characterisation of male officers as ineffectual chauvinists, and the offering of the Wrens as objects for Charlie's and the viewer's gaze, are mutually contradictory as well as uncomplimentary to all branches of the Navy."
- 3 any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects wordnet
- 4 Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
- 5 Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.
Etymology
From Middle English wrenne, wranne, from Old English wrenna, wrænna, werna, wærna, wrenne (“wren”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrandijō, from Proto-Germanic *wrandijô (“wren”). Cognate with Old Saxon wrendilo (“wren”), Old High German rento, rentilo (“wren”), Danish rindel (“wren”), Icelandic rindill (“wren”).
Originally a nickname from Middle English wrenne (“wren”).
From the similarity to WRNS, influenced by wrens (birds).
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