The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Old French Barthelemieu, from Latin Bartholomæus, from Greek Bartholomaios, from Aramaic bar Talmay, literally "son of Talmai," from the proper name Talmai, "abounding in furrows." One of the 12 Apostles, his festival is Aug. 24. On this date in 1572 took place the massacre of Protestants in France. Bartholomew Fair was held annually from 1133 to 1855 at West Smithfield.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 29853
Land area (2000): 406.838253 sq. miles (1053.706192 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.520458 sq. miles (6.527955 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 409.358711 sq. miles (1060.234147 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.211509 N, 85.892211 W
Headwords:
Bartholomew, IN
Bartholomew County
Bartholomew County, IN
Wikipedia
Bartholomew (originally , ; now commonly , ) is an English given name that derives from the Aramaic name meaning "son of Talmai". Bar is Aramaic for "son", and marks patronyms. Talmai either comes from telem "furrow" or is a Hebrew version of Ptolemy or Filius. Thus Bartholomew is either "son of furrows" (i.e., rich in land) or "son of Ptolemy".
Bartholomew is also an English or Scottish surname with the same meaning as the above as a given name.
Bartholomew the Apostle was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus.
Bartholomew may also refer to:
Usage examples of "bartholomew".
William Bartholomew, stalking the streets as if he were in charge of them, peering through his eyeholes at cats leaping in a mound of very ripe garbage at the mouth of an alley at Seventy-ninth Street, made his way down to the Five Points and his bed.
Hovel and Bartholomew continued to encourage their men, and the British fire became so deadly that that of the Boers was dominated.
Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar.
Bartholomew phoned because she heard the clinic was shut down, and she was concerned about being drawn into an investigation of embryo switching.
I can well remember that learned brother Bartholomew, who is deep in all the secrets of nature, pointed one out to me as we walked together near Vinney Ridge.
His face reflected his disbelief, as if, instead of the William Bartholomew with whom he had conducted business in the past, he thought me somebody else.
Rugby, and she went at night to the standing stone on the edge of the woodland, and she put some bread that Bartholomew had been eating but had left unfinished on the stone, wrapped in a cut strand of her own hair.
And on the very next day Bartholomew came and talked to her, and looked on her approvingly with his own eyes, the dangerous blue of a sky when a storm is coming, while she was cleaning out the grate in his bedroom.
And then he looked her full in the face, and her heart leapt and sank as eyes the dangerous blue of the summer sky before a storm gazed back into hers, and Master Bartholomew said her name.
Alain glanced at Bartholomew, who walked behind him, scratching his chin anxiously, but the man looked away, ashamed.
Rage growled softly, enough to make Bartholomew start back as he eyed the huge hound, but she did not lunge.
Rage lunged toward Bartholomew and a gang of five other men who had sidled forward, and they bolted back to a safe distance.
Saint Bartholomew has been blessed by the Pope and decorated with the Catholic medal.
She had left her infant son with Andy the day she headed for Serendipity to find out what had happened to Bartholomew Chastain.
Inside the box Nick had found only one item, the last letter that Bartholomew Chastain had written to Sally before he set out on the Third Expedition.