English Explanatory Dictionary

Blackett

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Middle English.
  2. A suburb of Sydney in the City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.

Word forms

Blackett Blacketts

Etymology

A diminutive of the surname Black or a topographic surname for someone who lived by a dark headland, from Middle English blak (“black”) + heaved (“head”).

Derived words

Blackett effect
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