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Keith

proper noun

  1. male given name
  2. family name
  3. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kiːθ/

name

Etymology: * As a Scottish surname, from the placename in Moray, Scotland, from Scottish Gaelic Cèith, meaning "wood" or "from the battleground," which is probably borrowed from Pictish *ᚉᚓᚈ (cēt) meaning "wood", or a forest, from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd. * As a German surname, from Middle High German kit (“sprout, offspring”) (compare kint).

  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

    “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday.

  3. A female given name from surname.
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