Usually means: Name derived from mother's name.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. matronymic: Merriam-Webster
  2. matronymic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. matronymic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. matronymic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. matronymic: Vocabulary.com
  6. matronymic: Wordnik
  7. matronymic: Wiktionary
  8. matronymic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. matronymic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Matronymic, matronymic: Dictionary.com
  11. Matronymic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Matronymic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. matronymic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. matronymic: Rhymezone
  15. Matronymic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. matronymic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. matronymic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. matronymic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. matronymic: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. matronymic: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (matronymic)

adjective:  Of, relating to, or derived from the given name of one's mother.
adjective:  By extension; of, relating to, or derived from the given name of a female ancestor.
noun:  A surname or byname acquired from the given name of one's mother.
noun:  By extension, a surname or byname acquired from the given name from a female ancestor.

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