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Composers: Antonin Dvorak
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Dvorak

Name origin: Czech (Dvořák)

Name meaning: status name for a rich farmer, one who owned a manor house, from Czech dvůr ‘manor’, ‘estate’, or in some cases an occupational name for someone who worked at a manor house rather than on the land. Compare Sedlak. In Moravia the term denoted a freeholder subject only to the king. This is the fourth most common surname in the Czech lands.

 
 
 
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