lambert

plural lamberts

1. astronomya cgs unit of luminance; the brightness of a surface that emits one lumen per square centimetre

   Synonyms: L

plural Lamberts

1. countableA male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.

   At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate

   1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act I, scene I

2. countableA surname originating as a patronymic.

   Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]”

   2002 January 17, Alina Tugend, “Reaching Out, With Cheek, to Young Jewish Readers”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023

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   Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).

   2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
   2. countableuncountableAn inactive village in Scott County, Missouri.
   3. countableuncountableA settlement in Richland County, Montana.
   4. countableuncountableA town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
   5. countableuncountableA township in Red Lake County, Minnesota.
4. uncountableA crater in Moon; A lunar impact crater.