Travers
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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector.
In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.
Proper noun
Travers
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A place name:
- A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
- An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
- A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.
Related terms
References
- Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988.