Reid Definition

pronoun

A surname​.

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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Origin of Reid

  • A surname from Old English, from a byname rēad (“red”); also a habitational name from hreod (“reeds”) and rēod (“cleared land”).

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Reid Sentence Examples

  • But he was chiefly attracted to the philosophical system represented by Reid and Stewart.

  • He thus threw in his lot with the Scottish philosophy, and his first dissertations are, in their leading position, adaptations from Reid's Inquiry.

  • The Scottish philosophy of Thomas Reid and his successors believed that David Hume's scepticism was no more than the genuine outcome of Locke's sensationalist appeal to experience when ripened or forced on by the immaterialism of Bishop Berkeley - God and the soul alone; not God, world and soul.

  • Robert Reid, who ruled from 1526 to 1540, was its greatest abbot.

  • Reid graduated at Aberdeen in 1726, and remained there as librarian to the university for ten years, a period which he devoted largely to mathematical reading.

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Words Starting With

RREREI

Words Ending With

DIDEID

Unscrambles

reid

Words Starting With R and Ending With D

Starts With R & Ends With DStarts With RE & Ends With DStarts With R & Ends With ID

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With R4 Letter Words Ending With D