English Explanatory Dictionary

Cantrell

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Cantrell Cantrells Cantrall Cantrelle Cantrill

Etymology

Various origins: * Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll (“hill”). * From Old French chanterelle (“small bell, treble”), a metonymic occupational surname for a bellmaker or ringer. * A diminutive of Canter.

Derived words

pentalogy of Cantrell
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