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Longfellow

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A surname originally used as a nickname for a tall person.
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of America's best-known 19th-century poets."

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In plain EnglishA surname that literally means "tall man," most famous through the poet Longfellow.

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Etymology

From "long" + "fellow" — literally a nickname for a tall man.

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