Meaning of Smith | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An English surname originating as an occupation (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).
   countable, uncountable
2. An English surname originating as an occupation (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand)
3. A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.
4. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. A male given name transferred from the surname
6. One who makes anything; wright.
   broadly
7. Several places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
8. An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
   countable, uncountable
9. Several places in the United States: An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana. An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky. An unincorporated community in York County, South Carolina. A small unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, named for an early settler family. A ghost town in Humboldt County, California
10. An artist.
    archaic
11. An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
12. An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana
13. An unincorporated community in York County, South Carolina.
    countable, uncountable
14. An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky
15. A small unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, named for an early settler family.
    countable, uncountable
16. A ghost town in Humboldt County, California.
    countable, uncountable
17. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Smith Township.
    countable, uncountable
18. A hamlet in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River, northern Alberta, Canada.
    countable, uncountable
19. Several rivers:
    countable, uncountable
20. A river in Douglas County, Oregon, United States, a tributary of the Umpqua River.
    countable, uncountable
21. A river in Montana, United States, a tributary of the Missouri.
    countable, uncountable
22. A river in Yukon and British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Liard River.
    countable, uncountable
23. A river in Virginia and North Carolina, United States, a tributary of the Dan River.
    countable, uncountable
24. A river in California, United States, flowing from the Klamath Mountains into the Pacific.
    countable, uncountable
25. A river in New Hampshire, United States, a tributary of the Pemigewasset River.
    countable, uncountable
26. A river in Linn County, Oregon, United States, a tributary of the McKenzie River.
    countable, uncountable
27. A river in Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Montmorency River.
    countable, uncountable
28. Smith College (a women's college in Massachusetts, U.S.)
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.”

“Patingham selmonger, who, as it was reported, reneuced the Arians opinion before he dyed. The xvi. daye were burned [at the stake], at Staines. Robert Smith[,] painter, who in the tyme of his imprisonment, wrate byuers thinges in Metre, which were after put in print. At Stortford Stephan Harwoode Alebruer. And at Ware Thomas Fuſſe Jerkenmaker.”

“This ſyſtem, as it was much eſteemed by many antient fathers of the chriſtian church, ſo after the reformation it was adopted by feveral divines of the moſt eminent piety and learning and of the moſt amiable manners; particularly, by Dr. Ralph Cudworth, by Dr. Henry More, and by Mr. John Smith of Cambridge.”

“John is a most excellent name, and Smith is a surname which is worthy of respect and honor, but wo to the man on whom they are conjoined! For John Smith to aspire to senatorial dignities or to the laurel of a poet is simply ridiculous. Who is John Smith? He is lost in the multitude of John Smiths, and individual fame is impossible.”

“[Smith is] Common to every village in England, north, south, east, and west. There are 300,000 Smiths in England.”

“Jada Pinkett Smith found herself at the center of conflict when her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony March 27. Rock joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a look she has said is more than a style preference.”

“Clearly the more numerous the holders of a surname, the more likely it is to be polygenic – that is, having arisen in many different places. In no case discovered, however, is a name evenly distributed among the population, though Smith comes close to it.”

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