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Ellison

  • /ˈɛlɪsən/

Where it comes from

From Ellis + -son.

proper noun Ellisons · Ellyson · Elison

  1. countable, uncountable A surname originating as a patronymic. “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday.
  2. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname. Ellison D. Smith
  3. countable, uncountable A female given name transferred from the surname. Ellison Barber
  4. countable, uncountable A township in Warren County, Illinois, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: allison, alison, zollinger, abbreviation, omission, deletion, dropping, suppression, contraction, truncation, elision, syncope, apocope, ellipsis, reduction, curtailment

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РусскийЭ́ллисон Éllison

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"Ellison." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ellison. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Ellison. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ellison

Chicago

"Ellison." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ellison.

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@misc{ellison_2026,
  title = {Ellison},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ellison},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}