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Andrew
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English
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+ the Apostle
Etymology
en :der grc:Ἀνδρέᾱς 1
From en ang Andreas, from en la Andreas, from en grc Ἀνδρέας, cognate with grc ἀνδρεῖος manly, both from grc ἀνήρ man. en André Andreas Andrei Andrey.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛə̯nˌdɹuː/ GA
en En-midwest-pancake-andrew.ogg GA
ăn'dro͞o, en /ˈæn.dɹuː/; [ˈeᵊnˌd̠ɹ̠ʷ˔ʊ̈u] [ˈænˌd̠ɹ̠ʷ˔ʊ̈u]
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Andrew.wav Southern England
en ændɹuː 2
Proper noun
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en countable en male Ancient Greek.
en 1890 John Davidson Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson 94 Ward and Downey I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point
en 1966 w:Ester Wier The Barrel 57 D. McCay Co. "Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.
en 1985 Ed McBain Eight Black Horses Simon&Schuster 2003 074346690X Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew was better because Andrew was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called Andrew, which was his true and honorable middle name.
en 2015 w:Joyce Carol Oates Jack of Spades 104 Head of Zeus 9781784970970 "Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please.""I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'."This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew," and a kind of depth, complexity. Perhaps I began to fall in love with Irina Kacinzk for seeing more in me than I saw in myself at the time.
en Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/adam-schiff-censure-vote-house 2023-06-21 The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20230629063359/https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/adam-schiff-censure-vote-house/
en Taylor Romine and Aya Elamroussi USC calls off speaker appearances at 2024 commencement after canceling its Muslim valedictorian’s speech w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/usc-cancels-outside-speakers-2024-commencement 2024-04-19 “Over the past several days, discussion relating to the selection of our valedictorian has taken on an alarming tenor,” USC Provost Andrew Guzman said in an online campus-wide letter dated April 15. “The intensity of feelings, fueled by both social media and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, has grown to include many voices outside of USC and has escalated to the point of creating substantial risks relating to security and disruption at commencement.” https://web.archive.org/web/20240421185321/https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/usc-cancels-outside-speakers-2024-commencement/
The first Apostle in the New Testament.
John 1 40-41 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
en countable en Scottish and English patronymics.
A placename:
en village co/Lamont County p/Alberta c/Canada.
en town co/Jackson County s/Iowa c/US.
en ucomm co/Boone County s/West Virginia c/US.
en UK naval _ slang The Royal Navy.
en Andrew Millar Andrew Miller
en 1984 Robert Hendrickson Salty Words 19 A common British catch phrase is, "You shouldn't have joined Andrew if you couldn't take a joke."
en 2011 Johannes H. L. Bosman The Plough & the Sword 257 “Me muvver always said I should a joined the Andrew.” (Royal Navy.)
Derived terms
en Andrew County Andrew Jackson Andrew Millar Andrew Miller Andrew Taint Andrewmas Andrews Andy Drew Saint Andrew Saint Andrews St Andrews St. Andrews St. Andrewstide Thorpe St Andrew
Related terms
pet forms Andy, Dandy, Drew
feminine form Andrea
en surnames Anders Anderson Andison Andre Andree Andress Andrewes Andrews Andrus Dand Dandie Dandy Danson Drew Drewe Drews Enderson Gillanders Kendrew MacAndrew McAndrew McAndrews Tancock Tandy
Descendants
ga Aindriú 1
Translations
the Apostle
Afrikaans: af Andreas
Aghwan: xag 𐔰𐕎𐔳𐕙𐔶𐔰𐕚
Albanian: sq Andréa, sq Andréu
Amharic: am እንድሪያስ
Arabic: ar أَنْدَرَاوُس m
Armenian: hy Անդրեաս
Old Armenian: xcl Անդրէաս
Belarusian: be Андрэ́й m
Breton: br Andrev
Bulgarian: bg Андре́й m
Burmese: my အင်ဒရူး
Catalan: ca Andreu m
Cherokee: chr ᎡᏂᏗ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 安得烈 Āndéliè, cmn 安德肋 Āndélèi, cmn 安德 Āndé
Coptic: cop ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ
Czech: cs Ondřej m
Danish: da Andreas
Dutch: nl Andreas m
Esperanto: eo Andreo
Estonian: et Andreas
Finnish: fi Andreas
French: fr André m
Galician: gl André m
Georgian: ka ანდრია
German: de Andreas m
Greek: el Ανδρέας m
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀνδρέας m
Hawaiian: haw ʻAnederea
Hebrew: he אנדראס
Hindi: hi अंद्रियास m
Hungarian: hu András
Indonesian: id Andreas
Irish: ga Aindrias m
Italian: it Andrea m
Japanese: ja アンデレ Andere
Kazakh: kk Әндір
Korean: ko ^안드레아
Lao: lo
Latin: la Andrē̆ās m i.e., Andreās or Andrēās
Latvian: lv Andrejs m
Lithuanian: lt Andriejus m
Macedonian: mk Андреј m
Manx: gv Andreays m, gv Andreas m
Māori: mi Ānaru
Norwegian: no Andreas
Old Nubian: onw ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ
Persian: fa اندریاس andriyâs
Polish: pl Andrzej m
Portuguese: pt André m
Romanian: ro Andrei m
Russian: ru Андре́й m
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Ándaras
Sardinian: sc Andria
Scots: sco Andra
Scottish Gaelic: gd Anndra m, gd Anndras m, gd Anndrais m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh А̀ндрија m
Latin: sh Àndrija m
Sicilian: scn Annrìa m, scn Nirìa m apheresized
Slovak: sk Andrej m
Slovene: sl Andrêj m
Spanish: es Andrés
Swedish: sv Andreas c
Thai: th นักบุญอันดรูว์ nák bun androo
Tigrinya: ti እንድርያስ
Ukrainian: uk Андрі́й m
Vietnamese: vi Anrê
Welsh: cy Andreas
male given name
Afrikaans: af Andre, af André, af Andries
Albanian: sq Andréa m, sq Andréu m, sq Ndréa m, sq Ndréu m
Arvanitika Albanian: aat Αντρέα m, aat Ντρίτσα m, aat Ντίτσι m
Arabic: ar أَنْدَرَاوُس m, ar أَنْدْرُو m
Aragonese: an Andreu, an Andrés
Armenian: hy Անդրեաս
Asturian: ast Andrés m
Basque: eu Ander
Breton: br Andrev
Bulgarian: bg Андре́й m, bg А́ндрю m
Burmese: my အင်ဒရူး
Catalan: ca Andreu
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 安德魯 Āndélǔ
Coptic: cop ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ
Cornish: kw Androw m
Corsican: co Andrìa, co Andrea, co Andria
Czech: cs Ondřej m, cs Andrej m
Danish: da Andreas, da Anders
Dutch: nl Andreas, nl Andries
Esperanto: eo Andreo
Estonian: et Andres
Faroese: fo Andras m, fo Andrias m
Finnish: fi Antero, fi Antti
Flemish: nl André
Franco-Provençal: frp André
French: fr André
Galician: gl André
Georgian: ka ანდრო, ka ანდრია, ka ანდრეასი
German: de Andreas m
Greek: el Ανδρέας m
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀνδρέας m
Greenlandic: kl Annassi
Hawaiian: haw ʻAnalū
Hebrew: he אַנְדְּרֵי m ándre from Russian
Hindi: hi ऐंड्रू m
Hungarian: hu András, hu Endre, hu Andor
Icelandic: is Andrés
Indonesian: id Andreas
Ingrian: izh Andree
Irish: ga Aindriú m, ga Aindrias m, ga Aindréas m
Italian: it Andrea m
Japanese: ja アンドリュー Andoryū
Korean: ko ^앤드루
Lao: lo ແອນດູ
Latin: la Andrē̆ās m i.e., Andreās or Andrēās
Latvian: lv Andrejs m
Lithuanian: lt Andrius m
Macedonian: mk Андреј m
Maltese: mt Indri
Mansi:
Northern Mansi: mns-nor Ӯнтари
Manx: gv Andreas m
Māori: mi Ānaru
Norman: nrf Andri
Norwegian: no Andreas, no Anders, no André m
Occitan: oc Andrèu m, oc Andreu m, oc Andrieu m, oc Andriu m
Old English: ang Andreas
Old Nubian: onw ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ
Polish: pl Andrzej, pl Jędrzej old Polish
Portuguese: pt André
Romanian: ro Andrei m
Cyrillic: ro Андрей m
Russian: ru Андре́й m cognate, ru Э́ндрю m transliteration
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Ándaras
Skolt Sami: sms Ååntašǩ
Sardinian: sc Andria
Scots: sco Andra
Scottish Gaelic: gd Anndra m, gd Aindrea m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh А̀ндрија m, sh А̀ндреј m
Latin: sh Àndrija m, sh Àndrej m
Sicilian: scn Annirìa m, scn Antrìa Italianized, scn Antrea Italianized
Slovak: sk Ondrej m, sk Andrej m
Slovene: sl Andrêj m
Spanish: es Andrés
Swedish: sv Anders c, sv Andreas c
Tatar: tt Әндри
Telugu: te ఆండ్రూ
Thai: th แอนดรูว์ androo
Tigrinya: ti እንድርያስ
Ukrainian: uk Андрі́й m cognate, uk Е́ндрю m transliteration
Walloon: wa Andrî
Welsh: cy Andras m
West Flemish: vls Andries m
Amuzgo:
Guerrero Amuzgo: amu Nntî
Hindi: hi ऍन्डरू
Indonesian: id Andreas
Korean: ko ^안드레
Swahili: sw Andalea
Anagrams
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