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Thomas is a male name of Aramaic origins. The English spelling Thomas is a transliteration through Latin Thomas , of the approximate Greek transliteration ( Ancient Greek : Θωμᾶς , romanized : Thōmâs ), from Imperial Aramaic: תאמא , romanized: Tawmɑʔ ), meaning ' twin '.
Tom is mostly used as a diminutive of Thomas. In Germanic countries and Scandinavia, "Tom" is in use as a formal given name. In modern Hebrew, the name Tom (Hebrew: תם, תום) is used as a unisex name, with the meaning of "innocence, naivety, simplicity" or "the end.” The name Tôm also exists as an independent Aramaic name.
Thom Andersen (born 1943), American filmmaker, film critic and teacher; Thom Adcox-Hernandez (born 1960), American actor; Thom Barry, American actor; Thomas Thom Bell (born 1943), Jamaican-born American songwriter, arranger and producer, one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [ 1 ]
In 1987, Richard Thomas appeared on stage in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, in the one-man play Citizen Tom Paine (an adaptation of Howard Fast's 1943 novel of the same title), playing Paine "like a star-spangled tiger, ferocious about freedom and ready to savage anyone who stands in his way," in a staging of the play in the bicentennial year ...
Thomas is the ninth most common surname in the United Kingdom. [1] It is found as a personal name among Christians in India, it is also used as a family name among the Saint Thomas Christian families from Kerala, South India. [2] In the 1990 United States Census, Thomas was the twelfth most common surname, accounting for 0.3% of the population. [3]
Notre Dame vs. Army has special meaning for Irish kicker Eric Goins, a 30-year-old veteran. Scooby Axson, USA TODAY. Updated November 23, 2024 at 9:01 AM.
The phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry" is a placeholder for unspecified people. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The phrase most commonly occurs as "every Tom, Dick, and Harry", meaning everyone , and "any Tom, Dick, or Harry", meaning anyone , although Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines the term to specify "a set of nobodies; persons of no note".