"Kerby" meaning in English

See Kerby in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Kerbys [plural]
Etymology: Variant of Kirby. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Kirby}} Kirby Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Kerbys}} Kerby (plural Kerbys)
  1. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Kerby-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
  2. A ghost town in Plumas County, California, United States. Categories (place): Ghost towns in California, USA, Places in California, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Kerby-en-name-RbUu6AH4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 49 49
  3. A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States. Categories (place): Census-designated places in Oregon, USA, Census-designated places in the United States, Places in Oregon, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Kerby-en-name-RaaDwLsq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 49 49

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Kerby meaning in English (3.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Kirby"
      },
      "expansion": "Kirby",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Variant of Kirby.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Kerbys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Kerbys"
      },
      "expansion": "Kerby (plural Kerbys)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Kerby-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ghost towns in California, USA",
          "orig": "en:Ghost towns in California, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Ghost towns",
            "Places",
            "Historical settlements",
            "Names",
            "Historical polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Polities",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in California, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in California, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 49 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ghost town in Plumas County, California, United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-Kerby-en-name-RbUu6AH4",
      "links": [
        [
          "ghost town",
          "ghost town"
        ],
        [
          "Plumas County",
          "Plumas County#English"
        ],
        [
          "California",
          "California#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Census-designated places in Oregon, USA",
          "orig": "en:Census-designated places in Oregon, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Census-designated places",
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Census-designated places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Census-designated places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Census-designated places",
            "Places",
            "United States",
            "Names",
            "North America",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "America",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Earth",
            "Lemmas",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Oregon, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in Oregon, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 49 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-Kerby-en-name-RaaDwLsq",
      "links": [
        [
          "census-designated place",
          "census-designated place"
        ],
        [
          "Josephine County",
          "Josephine County#English"
        ],
        [
          "Oregon",
          "Oregon#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kerby"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Kirby"
      },
      "expansion": "Kirby",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Variant of Kirby.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Kerbys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Kerbys"
      },
      "expansion": "Kerby (plural Kerbys)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Ghost towns in California, USA",
        "en:Places in California, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ghost town in Plumas County, California, United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ghost town",
          "ghost town"
        ],
        [
          "Plumas County",
          "Plumas County#English"
        ],
        [
          "California",
          "California#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Census-designated places in Oregon, USA",
        "en:Census-designated places in the United States",
        "en:Places in Oregon, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "census-designated place",
          "census-designated place"
        ],
        [
          "Josephine County",
          "Josephine County#English"
        ],
        [
          "Oregon",
          "Oregon#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kerby"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.