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CAEDMON

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: KAD-mun   [key]

Meaning unknown, though the first element is likely connected to British caed meaning "battle". Saint Caedmon was a 7th-century poet who supposedly received his poetic inspiration from a dream. Our only knowledge of him is through the historian Bede.
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