Andrewとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ăn'dro͞o, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.dɹuː/; [ˈeᵊnˌdʒɹʊ̈u], [ˈænˌdʒɹʊ̈u]
  • 韻: -ændɹuː

固有名詞

Andrew (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 Andrews)

1. (countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1890 John Davidson, Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson, Ward and Downey 1890, page 94:

     I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point […]

   • 1966 Ester Wier, The Barrel, D. McCay Co. 1966, page 57:

     "Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.

   • 1985 Ed McBain, Eight Black Horses, Simon&Schuster 2003, →ISBN, page 138-139:

     Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew was better because Andrew was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called Andrew, which was his true and honorable middle name.

   • 2015 Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades, Head of Zeus →ISBN page 104:

     "Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please."

     "I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'."

     This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew," and a kind of depth, complexity. Perhaps I began to fall in love with Irina Kacinzk for seeing more in me than I saw in myself at the time.

2. The first Apostle in the New Testament.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 1:40-41:

     One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

3. (countable) A Scottish and English patronymic surname, from given names​.
4. A placename
   1. A village in Alberta, Canada.
   2. A city in Iowa, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
5. (UK, naval slang) The Royal Navy.
   • 1984, Robert Hendrickson, Salty Words (page 19)

     A common British catch phrase is, "You shouldn't have joined Andrew if you couldn't take a joke."

   • 2011, Johannes H. L. Bosman, The Plough & the Sword (page 257)

     “Me muvver always said I should a joined the Andrew.” (Royal Navy.)

派生語

関連する語

• (pet forms): Andy, Dandy, Drew
• (feminine form): Andrea