smith means an English surname originating as an occupation (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.
smith is pronounced /smɪθ/.
name
- An English surname originating as an occupation (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).“Patingham selmonger, who, as it was reported, reneuced the Arians opinion before he dyed. The xvi. daye were burned [at the stake], at Staines. Robert Smith[,] painter, who in the tyme of his imprisonment, wrate byuers thinges in Metre, which were after put in print. At Stortford Stephan Harwoode Alebruer. And at Ware Thomas Fuſſe Jerkenmaker.”
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Several places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
- Several places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.
- Several places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in York County, South Carolina.
- Several places in the United States:; A small unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, named for an early settler family.
noun
- A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.“The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.”
- One who makes anything; wright.
- An artist.
verb
- To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.“Sigurd took the very best sword
That the Dwarfs had ever smithed.”