Oliver meaning

äləvər
A male given name.
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A masculine name.
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(archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
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One of Charlemagne's twelve peers, a friend of Roland.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) Drunk, pissed.
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Origin of oliver

  • Old French Olivier, by folk etymology shaped to look like Late Latin olivarius (“olive tree"), but probably representing a West Germanic form of Old Norse Óleifr (“ancestral + relic") (modern Olaf and Olof), or Proto-Germanic *ala- + *wÄ“raz (“true") (modern Alvar, Álvaro). Name of a paladin of Charlemagne in medieval French romance.

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Oliver Sentence Examples

  • For a popular but authentic account of some of Lord Rayleigh's scientific work and discoveries, see an article by Sir Oliver Lodge in the National Review for September 1898.

  • In the same year, 1598, a third expedition was despatched under Oliver van Noort, a native of Utrecht, but the voyage contributed nothing to geography.

  • By his wife Elizabeth Bourchier, Cromwell had four sons, Robert (who died in 1639), Oliver (who died in 1644 while serving in his father's regiment), Richard, who succeeded him as Protector, and Henry.

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