Meaning of Otis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
2. A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from the surname.
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3. An Otis elevator.

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“[…] in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.”

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