English Explanatory Dictionary

Thackeray

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A community in the Rural Municipality of Buffalo, western Saskatchewan, Canada.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Thackeray Thakre

Etymology

An English habitational surname from a place in Yorkshire, of Old Norse origin, from þak (“thatch, roof”) + rá (“nook”), therefore referring to a "place with thatching".

Related words

Thackray
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