English Explanatory Dictionary

Dollard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Dollard Dollards Dullard

Etymology

*English: Nickname for a dull or stupid person, from dull + -ard; or an adaptation of Irish Ó Dhollaird. *Other languages: can be related to pain/suffering, similar to Dolores; can be about mourning (see in Filae); or it can derive from rivers named Dollart or Dullaert (Middle Dutch “madman, savage”).

Related words

Dollard-des-Ormeaux
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