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BEDE

Gender: Masculine

Usage: History

Pronounced: BEED (English)   [key]

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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