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How⋅ard

[hou-erd]
–noun
1. Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
2. Sir Ebenezer, 1850–1928, English town planner.
3. Henry. Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of.
4. John Winston, born 1939, prime minister of Australia since 1996.
5. Leslie (Leslie Stainer), 1893–1943, English actor.
6. Roy Wilson, 1883–1964, U.S. editor and newspaper publisher.
7. Sidney (Coe) [koh] , 1891–1939, U.S. playwright and short-story writer.
8. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “brave heart.”
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Howard 
proper name, from O.Fr. Huard, from a Gmc. source similar to O.H.G. *Hugihard "heart-brave," or *Hoh-weard, lit. "high defender; chief guardian." Also probably in some cases a confusion with cognate O.N. Haward, and also with unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases from O.E. eowu hierde "ewe herd."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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