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Lambert

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English Lambert, from Old French Lambert, a saint's name (of a Bishop of Maastricht) brought to England by the Normans, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (land) + *berht (bright). Cognate with Old English Landbeorht, Old High German Lantberht, Dutch Lambrecht.

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Lambert (countable and uncountable, plural Lamberts)

  1. (countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act I, scene I:
      At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:
      There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
      The swelling difference of your settled hate
  2. (countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.
    • 2002 January 17, Alina Tugend, “Reaching Out, With Cheek, to Young Jewish Readers”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 January 2023:
      Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to. []
    • 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2022:
      Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
    2. An inactive village in Scott County, Missouri.
    3. A settlement in Richland County, Montana.
    4. A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
    5. A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota.
  4. (uncountable) A crater in Moon; A lunar impact crater.

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Lambert is the 329th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 93,678 individuals. Lambert is most common among White (83.66%) individuals.

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French

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Etymology

From Old French Lambert, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (land) + *berht (bright).

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Lambert m (feminine Lamberte or Lambertine)

  1. a male given name of rare modern usage, equivalent to English Lambert
  2. a surname, Lambert, originating as a patronymic
  3. Lambert: a crater in Moon, Solar System

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  • English: Lambert

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