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Weber

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Weber.

Pronunciation

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  • (surname): IPA(key): /ˈwɛbər/, /ˈwiːbər/, /ˈweɪbər/
  • (river): IPA(key): /ˈwiːbər/

Proper noun

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Weber

  1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).
    • 1982, Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton University Press, page 121:
      Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!
  2. A locale in the United States.
    1. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for local merchant William Weber.
    2. An unincorporated community in Washington; named for early settler Jacob Weber.
    3. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
  3. A river in Utah, United States; running 201 km from the Uinta Mountains into the Great Salt Lake; named for fur trader and explorer John Henry Weber.
  4. A hamlet in the North Island, New Zealand; named for surveyor Charles H. Weber.

Derived terms

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Statistics

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Weber is the 283rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 109,433 individuals. Weber is most common among White (94.3%) individuals.

Anagrams

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈveːbɐ/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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From Middle High German webære, from Old High German weberi, equivalent to weben (“to weave”) +‎ -er. Cognate with Luxembourgish Wiewer, English weaver.

Noun

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 Weber on German Wikipedia

Weber m (strong, genitive Webers, plural Weber, feminine Weberin)

  1. agent noun of weben
  2. weaver (male or of unspecified gender) (someone who weaves); webster
  3. weaver (as a component part of multiple compound names, mainly various bird (or other animal) species)
Declension
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Declension of Weber [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Weber die Weber
genitive eines des Webers der Weber
dative einem dem Weber den Webern
accusative einen den Weber die Weber
Derived terms
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Proper noun

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 Weber (Familienname) on German Wikipedia
Distribution of the surname Weber in Germany

Weber m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Webers or (with an article) Weber, feminine genitive Weber, plural Webers or Weber)

  1. a common surname originating as an occupation

Etymology 2

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Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Noun

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Weber n (strong, genitive Webers, plural Weber)

  1. weber

Polish

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Etymology

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From German Weber.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Weber m pers

  1. a male surname

Declension

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Declension of Weber
singular plural
nominative Weber Weberowie
genitive Webera Weberów
dative Weberowi Weberom
accusative Webera Weberów
instrumental Weberem Weberami
locative Weberze Weberach
vocative Weberze Weberowie

Proper noun

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Weber f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Derived terms

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See also

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