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  [el-drid] /ˈɛl drɪd/ noun 1. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “old” and “counsel.”. masc. proper name, from Old English Ealdred, literally “great in counsel,” from eald “old, great” (see old) + ræd “advice, counsel” (see read (v.)).

• Eldredge

  Eldredge (ěl’drědj) American paleontologist who with Stephen Jay Gould developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.

• Eldress

  [el-dris] /ˈɛl drɪs/ noun 1. a laywoman who is a governing officer in certain Protestant churches.

• Eldrich

  [el-drich] /ˈɛl drɪtʃ/ adjective 1. eerie; weird; spooky. /ˈɛldrɪtʃ/ adjective 1. (poetic, Scot) unearthly; weird adj. c.1500, apparently somehow from elf (cf. Scottish variant elphrish), an explanation OED finds “suitable;” Watkins connects its elements with Old English el- “else, otherwise” and rice “realm.”

• Eldridge

  [el-drij] /ˈɛl drɪdʒ/ noun 1. (David) Roy, 1911–1989, U.S. jazz trumpeter. 2. a male given name.

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