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Weber

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English

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from German Weber.

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    Weber

    1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).
      • 1982, Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton University Press, page 121:
        Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!
      • 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 27 April 2021:
        Armed with shovels, gloves and headlamps, the team followed their map to the dig site. The vibe was “very piratey,” Dr. Weber said. Dr. Telewski set to digging a neat, squared-off hole.
    2. A locale in the United States.
      1. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri; named for local merchant William Weber.
      2. An unincorporated community in Washington; named for early settler Jacob Weber.
      3. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
    3. A river in Utah, United States; running 201 km from the Uinta Mountains into the Great Salt Lake; named for fur trader and explorer John Henry Weber.
    4. A hamlet in Tararua district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand; named for surveyor Charles H. Weber.

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    Statistics

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    • According to the 2010 United States Census, Weber is the 283rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 109,433 individuals. Weber is most common among White (94.3%) individuals.

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    German

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    Pronunciation

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    Etymology 1

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    From Middle High German webære, from Old High German weberi, equivalent to weben (“to weave”) +‎ -er. Cognate with Luxembourgish Wiewer, English weaver.

    Noun

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     Weber on German Wikipedia

    Weber m (strong, genitive Webers, plural Weber, feminine Weberin)

    1. agent noun of weben
    2. weaver (male or of unspecified gender) (someone who weaves); webster
    3. weaver (as a component part of multiple compound names, mainly various bird (or other animal) species)
    Declension
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    Declension of Weber [masculine, strong]
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein der Weber die Weber
    genitive eines des Webers der Weber
    dative einem dem Weber den Webern
    accusative einen den Weber die Weber
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    Proper noun

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     Weber (Familienname) on German Wikipedia
    Distribution of the surname Weber in Germany

    Weber m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Webers or (with an article) Weber, feminine genitive Weber, plural Webers or Weber)

    1. a common surname originating as an occupation

    Etymology 2

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    Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber

    Noun

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    Weber n (strong, genitive Webers, plural Weber)

    1. weber

    Polish

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    Etymology

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    From German Weber.

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    Weber m pers

    1. a male surname

    Declension

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    Declension of Weber
    singular plural
    nominative Weber Weberowie
    genitive Webera Weberów
    dative Weberowi Weberom
    accusative Webera Weberów
    instrumental Weberem Weberami
    locative Weberze Weberach
    vocative Weberze Weberowie

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    Weber f (indeclinable)

    1. a female surname

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