Gerald
əld noun
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “rule.”
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Gerald
a name introduced by the Normans, from O.Fr. Giralt, from O.H.G. Gerwald, from P.Gmc. *girald "spear-ruler," from *ger "spear" + base of waltan "to rule" (cf. O.E. wealdan). The name was often confused with Gerard (q.v.).
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Gerald
is always a great word to know.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Gerald definition
["Gerald: An Exceptional Lazy Functional Programming Language", A.C. Reeves et al, in Functional Programming, Glasgow 1989, K. Davis et al eds, Springer 1990].
(1995-01-10)
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