Meaning of Brontë | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One of the Cyclops, who forged Zeus's thunderbolts.
   Greek
2. A surname from Irish.
3. An extinct surname from Irish, borne by a 19th-century literary family.
4. The goddess personifying thunder.
   Greek
5. A male given name transferred from the surname.
6. An English dukedom.
7. A surname.
8. A place name:
9. A town and comune in the metropolitan city of Catania, Sicily, Italy, origin of the title Duke of Bronte.
10. A community in the town of Oakville, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario, Canada.
11. A town in Coke County, Texas, United States, named after Charlotte Brontë.
12. A coastal locality in Tasman, New Zealand, named after the Duke of Bronte.
13. A coastal suburb of Sydney in Waverley council area, New South Wales, Australia, named after Bronte House, from the Duke of Bronte.

Examples

“An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used.”

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