Richard
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
(rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.
Martin Richard, the youngest of three people killed by explosions at the Boston Marathon in 2013
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Examples
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.
Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!
Source: S. W. Fallon; Sir Richard Carnac Temple; Faqir Chand (Lala.) (1998). A dictionary of Hindustani proverbs. Asian Educational Services. p. 119. ISBN 978-81-206-0663-0.