"Kerr" meaning in English

See Kerr in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /kɜː/ [UK], /kɛə/ [UK], /kɛɹ/ [US] Forms: Kerrs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ) Etymology: * As an English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, from Middle English kerr (“brushwood”), possibly related to Irish Gaelic ceàrr (“left-handed”) and/or Old Norse kjarr. * As an Irish surname, variant of Carr. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kehr. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mac gille chéir (“son of the dusky laid”), from ciar (“black”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|kerr||brushwood}} Middle English kerr (“brushwood”), {{der|en|non|kjarr}} Old Norse kjarr, {{der|en|ga|-}} Irish, {{der|en|de|-}} German, {{der|en|gd|-}} Scottish Gaelic Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~|s}} Kerr (countable and uncountable, plural Kerrs)
  1. A surname. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Kerr-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
  2. A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Illinois, USA, Places in the United States, Townships
    Sense id: en-Kerr-en-name-2aujTmbv
  3. A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Census-designated places in Montana, USA, Census-designated places in the United States, Places in Montana, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Kerr-en-name-7wLCdCeM
  4. An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Ohio, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Ohio, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Kerr-en-name-vjk3KDnu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 19 21 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 16 20 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 16 19 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Kerr black hole, Kerr cell, Kerr County, Kerr effect, Kerr geometry, Kerr metric, Kerr-Newman black hole, Kerr vacuum, Kerrville, magneto-optic Kerr effect

Inflected forms

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