Newhouse
Newhouse (name) means an English surname, originally denoting someone who lived in a newly built house. Example: “The Newhouse family founded a large publishing company.”
Word forms
- Plural
- Newhouses
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Etymology
This name has two strands. One is simply new + house. The other is a calque of German Neuhaus: it derives from Neuhaus (compare Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.), an anglicization of German Neuhaus, itself from neu + Haus. It is cognate with Catalan Casanova, French Maisonneuve, German Neuhaus, Italian Casanova, and Occitan Casanova.