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Dvorak.

A surname from Czech, especially

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈdvɔːʒæk/UK/ˈdvɔːʒɑːk/UK/ˈdvɔɹʒɑk/US/ˈdvɔɹʒæk/US
  1. A surname from Czech, especially

  2. A surname from Czech, especially Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.

Where this word comes from

From Czech Dvořák, from Old Czech dvořák (“attendant, tenant farmer”), equivalent to dvůr (“court, courtyard, estate, farm”) + -ák (“-er, -an: forming related nouns”). The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

adj/ˈdvɔːʒæk/UK/ˈdvɔɹæk/US/dəˈvɔɹæk/US
  1. Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row, AOEUIDHTNS on the middle, or home row, and QJKXBMWVZ on the bottom row, thus placing the letters most frequently used in the home row. Many variants on Dvorak layouts also exist, including keyboards for right-hand-only and left-hand-only-typists.

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Where this word comes from

From Czech Dvořák, from Old Czech dvořák (“attendant, tenant farmer”), equivalent to dvůr (“court, courtyard, estate, farm”) + -ák (“-er, -an: forming related nouns”). The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.