Meaning of Tristram | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Tristan.
2. A surname.

Examples

“But of all names in the universe he had the most unconquerable aversion for Tristram;--he had the lowest and most contemptible opinion of it of any thing in the world,--thinking it could possibly produce⟳ nothing in rerum natura, but what was extremely mean⟳ and pitiful: - - - --In a word, to behold such a one, in his old age, ill-fitted for troubles, ten times in a day suffering sorrow;--ten times in a day calling the child of his prayers Tristram!-- Melancholy dissyllable of sound⟳! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name⟳ vituperative under heaven.”

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