Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun rock. Compare Roach.
* Also as an English surname, misdivision of Middle English atter oke (“at the oak”). Compare Nock.
* As an English occupational surname, from Old Norse rokkr (“distaff”). Compare Rocker.
* As an Irish surname, translated from names like Mac Conchairge (“son of the hound of the rock”), from cú + carraig, see also McHarg.
* As a German surname Röck, variant of the personal name Rocco, see Roche.
* Also as a German surname, from the noun Rock (“skirt gown”).
* As a French surname, shortened from Roquebrune, Rocquebrune (see Rocque) or Larock.
Compare Roch.
Senses: examples: text: Jada Pinkett Smith found herself at the center of conflict when her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony March 27. Rock joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a look she has said is more than a style preference.
ref: 2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN:
glosses: A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke ).
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A coastal village in St Minver Lowlands parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9375).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Membury parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2702).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Rennington parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NU2020).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Curry Mallet parish, South Somerset district and North Curry parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3222).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Washington parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1214).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7371).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A hamlet in Blackwood community, Caerphilly borough county borough (OS grid ref ST1898).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A hamlet north-east of Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough (OS grid ref SS7993).
glosses: The Rock, a village south-west of Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Maple Ridge Township, Delta County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rock Township.
glosses: the Rock
Nickname of Gibraltar.
qualifier: preceded by "the" or "The"
glosses: the Rock
Nickname of Uluru.
qualifier: preceded by "the" or "The"
glosses: the Rock
Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA.
qualifier: preceded by "the" or "The"
glosses: the Rock
Nickname of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
qualifier: preceded by "the" or "The"
Related terms: rock
Rock Ferry
the Rock
The Rock