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An English and Irish surname, and the name of a small community in Missouri.
"Joyce Carol Oates is a celebrated American novelist."
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Etymology
From Old Norman Ode/Odes, a Germanic name meaning "wealth"; in some cases an anglicization of the Irish surname Ó Cuirc.