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Burns
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A Scottish and Irish surname, most famously that of the poet Robert Burns, and the name of several towns in the United States.
"They recited Robert Burns at the Burns Night supper."
Word Forms
Burnses plural, Burns plural
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Etymology
As a Scottish surname, from places containing burn ("stream"); as an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Broin.