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Habitational vs Carey - What's the difference?

habitational | carey |

As an adjective habitational

is pertaining to habitation or an inhabited region.

As a noun carey is

tortoiseshell.

habitational

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to habitation or an inhabited region.
  • (of a name) Deriving from the name of a place where a presumed ancestor once lived.

    • carey

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Cary

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Either of several place names in south-west England.
  • An English habitational surname from either of these placenames.
  • , anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Ciardha .
  • , derived from Carew.
  • transferred from the surnames.
  • (female), usually a spelling variant of Cary.

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