English Explanatory Dictionary

Ravenscroft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. An unincorporated community in White County, Tennessee, United States.

Word forms

Ravenscroft Ravenscrofts Ravenscraft

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Cheshire, from the Old English personal name Hræfn, a byname from hræfn (“raven”), + -s- + croft (“enclosed field”).

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