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Bankhead

name

Etymology

Habitational surname from various Scottish minor places, from bank + head.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as bankhead — “bank + head”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

    • Sixty-three-year-old Tallulah Bankhead joined the British studio’s monstrous regiment as the religious fanatic who terrorises her dead son’s girlfriend in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965).

  2. A number of places in Scotland

    A number of places in Scotland:

  3. A locality in Banff National Park, near Banff, Alberta, Canada.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA