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Rice.

A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

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name/ɹaɪs/

  1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

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  2. A number of places in the United States: A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California.

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  3. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.

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  4. A number of places in the United States: A city in Benton County, Minnesota.

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  5. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.

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  6. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, named after Horace Rice.

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  7. A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Navarro County, Texas, named after William Marsh Rice.

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  8. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia.

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  9. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, named after William B. Rice.

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  10. A number of places in the United States: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rice Township.

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Where this word comes from

* As a Welsh surname, borrowed from Welsh Rhys, an Anglicization. Compare Reese, Freese, Price, and Preece. * As an English surname, from Old English hris (“brushwood, shrubbery”). * Also as an English surname, from a nickname through Middle English and Anglo-Norman from French ris (“smile, laughter”). * Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun rice. * As as German surname, Americanized from Reis (“shoot, twig”), related to the Old English word above. Compare Ries.

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