What does Shaw mean?

Definitions for Shaw
ʃɔshaw

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Shaw, Artie Shaw, Arthur Jacob Arshawskynoun

    United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)

  2. Shaw, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billingsnoun

    United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)

  3. Shaw, Anna Howard Shawnoun

    United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)

  4. Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shawnoun

    British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

Wiktionary

  1. shawnoun

    A thicket; a small wood or grove.

  2. Shawnoun

    An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.

  3. Etymology: sceaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (> Danish skov).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Shawnoun

    A thicket; a small wood. A tuft of trees near Lichfield is called Gentle shaw.

    Etymology: scua , Saxon; schawe, Dutch; skugga, Islandick.

Wikipedia

  1. shaw

    The Shaw Group is a pipe and module fabrication firm specializing in induction bending. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Shaw employs approximately 700 people across its offices and operations in North America and the Middle East.

ChatGPT

  1. shaw

    Shaw, also spelled Shawe or Shaws, is a surname primarily of Scottish and English origin. However, in a different context, 'shaw' is a dialect term used in northern England, meaning a small grove, thicket or similar cluster of trees. In the entertainment world, "Shaw" is well-known due to the Shaw Brothers Studio, a major player in Hong Kong cinema. Additionally, Shaw Communications is a prominent Canadian telecommunications company. The term's meaning can vary widely depending on its application, from names of people, places, institutions, and art works.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shawnoun

    a thicket; a small wood or grove

  2. Shawnoun

    the leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc

  3. Etymology: [OE. schawe, schae, thicket, grove, AS. scaga; akin to Dan. skov, Sw. skog, Icel. skgr.]

Wikidata

  1. Shaw

    Shaw is a city in Bolivar and Sunflower counties, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. The name was derived from an old Indian tribe northeast of this region. The population was 2,312 at the 2000 census.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Shaw

    shaw, n. a thicket, a small wood: (Scot.) a stem with the leaves, as of a potato. [A.S. scaga; Ice. skógr, Dan. skov.]

Suggested Resources

  1. shaw

    Song lyrics by shaw -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by shaw on the Lyrics.com website.

  2. SHAW

    What does SHAW stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SHAW acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SHAW

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shaw is ranked #164 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Shaw surname appeared 160,400 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 54 would have the surname Shaw.

    72% or 115,600 total occurrences were White.
    21.1% or 33,989 total occurrences were Black.
    2.3% or 3,785 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.1% or 3,449 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.4% or 2,374 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.7% or 1,203 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for Shaw »

  1. wash

  2. Wash.

  3. haws

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shaw in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shaw in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Shaw in a Sentence

  1. Vin Diesel:

    It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs Shaw character, my approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, Okay, we're going to take Dwayne Johnson, who's associated with wrestling, and we're going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard Dwayne Johnson character as someone that they don't know -- Hobbs Shaw hits you like a ton of bricks.

  2. Donald Trump:

    People are angry, they're angry at what's going on, they're angry at the border, they're angry at the crime, they're angry at people coming in and shooting Kate [Steinle] in the back in California, in San Francisco, they're angry when Jamiel Shaw was shot in the face by an illegal immigrant, they're angry when the woman, the veteran, 65 years old, is raped sodomized and killed by an illegal immigrant. And they're very angry about it and, by the way, thousands of other cases like that.

  3. Dwyane Wade:

    When I sit down with my kids and I sit down and talk to them about role models and who I want them to look up to, I tell them to go look up James Shaw Jr..

  4. Russell Ainsworth:

    What we did learn from the video is that officer appeared to be poorly trained, he put himself so close to Mr. Shaw that he escalated the situation.

  5. Steve Salisbury:

    The genus name, Thapunngaka, incorporates thapun [ ta-boon ] and ngaka [ nga-ga ], the Wanamara words for' spear' and' mouth', respectively, the species name, shawi, honours the fossil's discoverer Len Shaw, so the name means' Shaw's spear mouth'.

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