Smith
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)
(2) Someone who works at something specified
(3) Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
(4) English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
(5) Religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)
(6) United States blues singer (1894-1937)
(7) United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886)
(8) United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986)
(9) United States sculptor (1906-1965)
(10) Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- An English surname (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand); derived from the trade name smith.
Quotations
- 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names, The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 114:
- John is a most excellent name, and Smith is a surname which is worthy of respect and honor, but wo to the man on whom they are conjoined! For John Smith to aspire to senatorial dignities or to the laurel of a poet is simply ridiculous. Who is John Smith? He is lost in the multitude of John Smiths, and individual fame is impossible.