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Brill.

A surname.

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Meaning & usage

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  1. A surname.

  2. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).

  3. A hamlet in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7229).

  4. A neighbourhood of Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

  5. An unincorporated community in the town of Oak Grove, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.

Where this word comes from

* As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”). * As a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym of בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, such as "Ben Rabbi Yehuda Levi".

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