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In Shakespeare's play , Duncan is the King of Scotland. He is old, kind, and slow to see danger. He trusts , even sleeps as a guest in 's house — and kills him in the night, with help from Lady . That is the engine of the play: not a fight between enemies, but a host murdering a guest-king. Duncan has named his son Malcolm to rule after him, which wounds 's hope of the crown. After the murder, Duncan's sons run, and takes the throne. Students sometimes think is already the king when the play starts; he is not. Duncan is. The name itself is an old Scottish and Irish one, still common as a first name and a family name. Shakespeare took the story from older Scottish history, then made it darker and tighter for the stage.
組成As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish name, from Donnchadh: donn (brown) + cath (battle). It is also written Donagh, Donaghue, Donahue. Separately, some Irish families got Duncan from Ó Duinnchinn: donn (brown) + ceann (head).
同家族的字
- Donahueanother English spelling of an Irish name that uses the same old piece donn, meaning brown
原始詞典資料24 筆記錄
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Duncanname/ˈdʌŋkən/
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A male given name from Scottish Gaelic anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
- For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd
- "Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -
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A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
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A surname from Irish, a variant of Dinkin.
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An Irish surname, a variant of Donegan.
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An Irish surname, a variant of Dunican.
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An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue).
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A locality in Kangaroo Island council area, South Australia; named for politician John Duncan.
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A city in the Regional District of Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan.
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A river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
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A short river in the Southern Alps, West Coast Region, New Zealand.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。