Herbert definition

hʉrbərt
(person, proper) A masculine name: dim. Herb, Bert.
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(person) 1593-1633; Eng. poet & clergyman.
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(person) 1859-1924; U.S. composer & conductor, born in Ireland.
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(slang, punk subculture) A working-class youth.
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A male given name. In modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
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A patronymic surname​.
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Noun

Singular:
herbert
Plural:
herberts

Origin of herbert

  • From Old French Herbert, from Frankish *Hari-berct, from a Germanic source heri "army" + berht "bright".

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  • From the name Herbert.

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Herbert Sentence Examples

  • In his extremity Charles trusted himself to Herbert, count of Vermandois, who deceived him, and threw him into confinement at Château-Thierry and afterwards at Peronne.

  • During his stay at the Northamptonshire village of Holdenby or Holmby - where Sir Thomas Herbert complains the green was not well kept - Charles frequently rode over to Lord Vaux's place at Harrowden, or to Lord Spencer's at Althorp, for a game, and, according to one account, was actually playing on the latter green when Cornet Joyce came to Holmby to remove him to other quarters.

  • Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill and Herbert Spencer are not systematic materialists, but show tendencies towards materialism.

  • We meet with this in the titles of two Latin works' by German authors in reply to Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

  • Herbert Spencer finds that the modern individual has intuitions of duty which represent the inherited experience of what has been good for the race in the past.

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