Mortimer

Dummy with monocle

Mortimer is an English given name and surname, now somewhat old-fashioned.

As a first name, it carries an aristocratic or formal tone: Young Mortimer was summoned to the headmaster's office.

The name appears in Shakespeare's history plays and occasionally as a character name suggesting English upper-class heritage.

British

England

Largest British country

Anglo-SaxonPre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
Norman1066 England conqueror
aristocraticOf hereditary nobility

manor · estate · peerage · gentry · landed · squire · nobility · heraldry · lineage · surname

old-fashioned

antiquated

Old and outdated

vintageQuality from past eras
bygoneOf earlier times
datedOld-fashioned or courted

quaint · archaic · Victorian · Edwardian · dusty · fusty · stuffy · formal · butler · drawing-room

literary

Jeeves

Byword for butler

characterNature, symbol, or role
novelNew and unusual
DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust

caricature · stereotype · pompous · buffoon · befuddled · fussy · elderly · uncle · inheritance · will

name-style

Rupert

Male given name

BarnabyTraditional English given name
PercivalGrail-seeking knight
AlgernonBritish masculine given name

Archibald · Horatio · Leopold · Cornelius · Reginald · Alistair · Thaddeus · Bartholomew · Montgomery · Gerald

Categories

Old-Fashioned NamesMildred, Gertrude, Ethel, Edna, Bertha
British M AuthorsA.A. Milne, Milne, Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe, John Milton
Shakespeare historiesHenry V, Richard II, Richard III, King John, Henry VIII
Norman nobilityBeaumont, Percy, Neville, Clare, Beauchamp
comicscomic books, comic book, comic strip, comic art, comic panel
Thames ValleyThames, Henley-on-Thames, Abingdon, Wallingford, Marlow

Family

mortal, immortal, mortify, moribund, immortality, mortality, mortuary, immortalize, immortalized

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