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cowan
/ˈkəʊən/
noun 5name 5
Definitions
noun
1
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
2
A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
3
A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
4
Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
noun
1
A fishing-boat.
name
1
A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
2
A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
3
A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
4
An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
5
A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
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