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Meaning of Lambert | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈlæmbɚt

Definitions

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
  2. a cgs unit of luminance; the brightness of a surface that emits one lumen per square centimetre
  3. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
  6. An inactive village in Scott County, Missouri.
  7. A settlement in Richland County, Montana.
  8. A town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
  9. A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota.
  10. A crater in Moon; A lunar impact crater.

Equivalents

Deutsch Lambrecht
Français Lambert
Italiano Lamberto
Nederlands Lambrecht

Examples

“At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate”
“Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]””
“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).”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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