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Ackerman
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A surname of occupational origin, denoting a farmer, also a town in Mississippi, United States.
"The Ackerman family had farmed the same land for generations."
Word Forms
Ackermans plural
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Etymology
From Middle English acker ("field") + man; originally denoted a farmer who did not own the fields he worked.