Andrew

plural Andrews

1. countableA male given name from Ancient Greek.

   "Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.

   1966, Ester Wier, The Barrel, D. McCay Co., page 57

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   I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point […]

   1890, John Davidson, Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson, Ward and Downey, page 94

   Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew was better because Andrew was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called Andrew, which was his true and honorable middle name.

   1985, Ed McBain, Eight Black Horses, Simon&Schuster, published 2003, →ISBN

   "Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please." "I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'." This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew," and a kind of depth, complexity. Perhaps I began to fall in love with Irina Kacinzk for seeing more in me than I saw in myself at the time.

   2015, Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades, Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 104

   The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.

   2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2023

   “Over the past several days, discussion relating to the selection of our valedictorian has taken on an alarming tenor,” USC Provost Andrew Guzman said in an online campus-wide letter dated April 15. “The intensity of feelings, fueled by both social media and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, has grown to include many voices outside of USC and has escalated to the point of creating substantial risks relating to security and disruption at commencement.”

   2024 April 19, Taylor Romine and Aya Elamroussi, “USC calls off speaker appearances at 2024 commencement after canceling its Muslim valedictorian’s speech”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2024

2. countableuncountableThe first Apostle in the New Testament.

   One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:40-41

3. countableA Scottish and English surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA village in Lamont County, Alberta, Canada.
   2. countableuncountableA town in Jackson County, Iowa, United States.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
5. UKcountableslanguncountablegovernmentThe Royal Navy.

   “Me muvver always said I should a joined the Andrew.” (Royal Navy.)

   2011, Johannes H. L. Bosman, The Plough & the Sword, page 257

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   A common British catch phrase is, "You shouldn't have joined Andrew if you couldn't take a joke."

   1984, Robert Hendrickson, Salty Words, page 19

   Synonyms: Andrew Millar, Andrew Miller