Langston
Langston is a given name and surname of English origin, meaning "long stone" or from a place with that feature.
It gained currency as a first name largely through the influence of Langston Hughes, the prominent African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance: They named their son Langston after the writer.
Manhattan neighborhood, cultural landmark
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- poetWriter of verse
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- essayistAuthor of short prose
novelist · African-American · civil rights · jazz poetry · blues · bebop · social justice · equality
Hereditary family identifier
- given namePersonal name from birth
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- EnglishBritain's native tongue
Old English · family · lineage · identity
Harlem
Manhattan neighborhood, cultural landmark
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- poetWriter of verse
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
essayist · novelist · African-American · civil rights · jazz poetry · blues · bebop · social justice · equality · literary
surname
Hereditary family identifier
- given namePersonal name from birth
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
English · Old English · family · lineage · identity
LangstonEzra Pound
T.S. Eliot · Rudyard Kipling · Robert Frost · Ayn Rand · white
long, length, lengthen, lengthy, longitude, longitudinal, elongate, elongation, prolong