English Explanatory Dictionary

Kerr

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States.

Pronunciation

/kɜː/ /kɛə/ /kɛɹ/

Word forms

Kerr Kerrs

Etymology

* As an English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, from Middle English kerr (“brushwood”), possibly related to Irish Gaelic ceàrr (“left-handed”) and/or Old Norse kjarr. * As an Irish surname, variant of Carr. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kehr. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mac gille chéir (“son of the dusky laid”), from ciar (“black”).

Derived words

Kerr black hole Kerr cell Kerr County Kerr effect Kerr geometry Kerr metric Kerr-Newman black hole Kerrs Creek Kerr vacuum Kerrville magneto-optic Kerr effect
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