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richard | archie |

As a proper noun richard

is cognate to richard.

As a noun archie is

principle.

richard

English

Proper noun

(s)
  • .
  • * ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II :
    • What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard' loves ' Richard ; that is, I am I.
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
    • But we have known Williams and Richards , names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance'', ''Fight the good fight of faith , or such like,
  • * 1985 , , Pride , ISBN 0394536363, page 97:
    • I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard . That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.

    • Related terms

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    archie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the male given name Archibald .

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, informal) An computer.
  • * 2005 , "Jonathan", BBC Micro B and Acorn Archimedes A400 (?) to PC file transfer'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.networking )
    • And what about getting the data from the Archie to the PC?

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    * * English diminutives of male given names