English Explanatory Dictionary

Medved

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from the Slavic languages.

Word forms

Medved Medveds Medvid Medwid

Etymology

As a Slovene, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Jewish, Slovak, and Czech (Medvěd) surname, all from common Slavic for bear, from Proto-Slavic *medvědь (“bear”). Compare Nedved. Also sometimes Americanized from Russian patronymic Medvedev, of the same meaning.

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