Brooke Definition
bryo͝ok
pronoun
A surname.
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A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s.
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noun
1858, H. G. Nicholls, The Forest of Dean.
It commences by explaining the terms "above" and "beneath the wood" to be two ancient divisions of the Forest, "beginning at the river Wye at Lydbrook, where the brooke there leading from the forges falls into the said river, and so up the said brooke or stream unto a place in the said Forest called Moyery Stock, and from thence along a Wayn-way at the bottom of a place called the Salley Vallett, and so along the same way between the two old enclosures that did belong to Ruardean and Little Dean Walks unto Cannop's Brooke, and down the said brooke to Cannop's Bridge; and from thence along the road or highway to the Speech-house, and from thence along the said highway to Foxe's Bridge, and from thence down Blackpool Brooke to Blakeney."
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Synonyms:
- rupert brooke
Origin of Brooke
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A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook.
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