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Ackerman

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Ackerman

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From Middle English acker (“field”) + -man. Originally denoted a farmer who did not own the fields he worked.

proper noun Ackermans

  1. countable, uncountable A surname originating as an occupation. Wherever Eliot went, Agent Ackerman appeared five seconds later, automatically locked onto her coordinates.
  2. countable, uncountable A town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States.

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@misc{ackerman_2026,
  title = {Ackerman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ackerman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}