"Addison" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈædɪsən/, [ˈæɾɪsən] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Addison.wav Forms: Addisons [plural]
Etymology: A patronymic surname from a medieval diminutive form of Adam + -son. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Adam|son}} Adam + -son Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~|s}} Addison (countable and uncountable, plural Addisons)
  1. A surname transferred from the given name. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-7rrtY8Fk Categories (other): English surnames, English unisex given names Disambiguation of English unisex given names: 20 23 22 9 9 9 9
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-Vj3AlNl- Categories (other): English given names, English male given names, English unisex given names Disambiguation of English unisex given names: 20 23 22 9 9 9 9
  3. A female given name transferred from the surname popular in the 2000s, following Alison and Madison. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-dM3QvibC Categories (other): English female given names, English given names, English unisex given names Disambiguation of English unisex given names: 20 23 22 9 9 9 9
  4. A place name, including:
    A town in Vermont, United States, named after the poet Joseph Addison.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Vermont, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in Vermont, USA, Towns in the United States Derived forms: Adders, Addison County, Addisonian, Addison's disease
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-11tsL4xc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -son, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 3 4 22 22 22 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -son: 5 5 5 25 15 20 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 5 5 20 23 20 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 4 4 22 22 22 22
  5. A place name, including:
    Synonym of Webster Springs, West Virginia; this is actually the official name, after landowner Addison McLaughlin.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: Webster Springs [synonym, synonym-of], West Virginia [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-14r3Y8Nb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -son, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 3 4 22 22 22 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -son: 5 5 5 25 15 20 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 5 5 20 23 20 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 4 4 22 22 22 22
  6. A place name, including:
    A town in Winston County, Alabama, United States.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Alabama, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in Alabama, USA, Towns in the United States
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-AsUi6LxT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -son, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 3 4 22 22 22 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -son: 5 5 5 25 15 20 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 5 5 20 23 20 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 4 4 22 22 22 22
  7. A place name, including:
    A number of townships in the United States, listed under Addison Township.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Addison-en-name-HTIxoaIy Categories (other): Townships, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -son, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 3 4 22 22 22 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -son: 5 5 5 25 15 20 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 5 5 20 23 20 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 4 4 22 22 22 22

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.