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View Name: Bede


BEDE
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: History
PRONOUNCED: BEED (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
Modern form of the Old English name Baeda, possibly related to Old English bed "prayer". Saint Bede, called the Venerable Bede, was an 8th-century historian, scholar and Doctor of the Church.
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