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Ackerman, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 1696
Housing Units (2000): 781
Land area (2000): 2.253359 sq. miles (5.836173 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.013892 sq. miles (0.035980 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.267251 sq. miles (5.872153 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00300
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.311400 N, 89.174745 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39735
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Ackerman (surname)

Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre. Therefore, Ackermann means "ploughman". Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning. "Egger" is a German variation of Acker.

Usage examples of "ackerman".

Miss Ackerman, who had been watching a game show on television and clucking at the mental lethargy of the panelists, walked over to the intercom control and demanded to know who was there.

Florence Ackerman had been looking out for her own self for her whole life and the rest of the planet could go and do the same.

Besides obscuring much of his face, the sunglasses kept Miss Ackerman from noticing much about the rest of his appearance.

While we needn't concern ourselves with his suggestion, let it be noted that Miss Ackerman could not possibly have followed it, nor, given her character and temperament, would she have been likely at all to make the attempt.

Miss Ackerman did think of calling her local precinct but decided it would be a waste of time.

And Miss Ackerman recalled a time two years previously, just a few months after her retirement, when she returned from an afternoon chamber music concert to find her apartment burglarized and several hundred dollars worth of articles missing.

Miss Ackerman sat in her chair, leaving it to make a cup of tea, returning to it teacup in hand, and concentrated on her television program.

Miss Ackerman taught all her life here in Washington Heights just three blocks from the place where she lived.

Mildred Ackerman, thirty-six, East Eighty-seventh Street, fell from an eighteenth-story window.

Rudolph Ackerman, that's the Transit Authority cop, killed his wife and kids and shot himself.

Florence Ackerman was stabbed, Samuel Ackerman fell down a flight of stairs, Lucy Ackerman took an overdose of sleeping pills, Walter P.

Sarah Ackerman, seventy-eight years old, spent two months as a terminal cancer patient at St.

Maybe somebody named Ackerman did him dirty once upon a time and he wants to get even with all the Ackermans in the world.

You want to start looking somewhere, it's gotta be easier to start with people named Ackerman than with people not named Ackerman.

What else would Hale Ackerman be doing on such a beautiful sunshiny day, hmmmm?