English Explanatory Dictionary

Warne

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A placename, from the surname:
  3. A small town in the Shire of Buloke, Victoria, Australia.
  4. An unincorporated community in Brasstown Township, Clay County, North Carolina, United States.

Word forms

Warne Warnes

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon recorded as Wagefen in the Domesday Book, probably from Old English wagian (“to sway, shake, quiver”) + fen (“bog, marsh”).

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