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What does Moriarty mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Moriarty? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A surname​ of Irish origin.
  2. Professor James Moriarty, fictional archenemy and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes; by extension any such archenemy or nemesis.
  3. A city in New Mexico.
Name
  1. A male given name of Irish origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Sea warrior.
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Fr Moloney paid tribute to Bishop Jim Moriarty for readmitting him to the priesthood.
Reporter, Claire Moriarty, finds herself all at sea with words such as gallant, buntlines and spanker.
Mr Moriarty said residents in the estate noticed there seemed to be a lot of activity regarding the manholes in the area over the previous fortnight.
Moriarty overcomes the predictability by insisting on the complexity of Cora, who is both flat and expansive as a character.
Conan Doyle had no scruples about bringing him back from the dead after he drowned with Moriarty in the Reichenbach Falls at the end of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
So cleverly was the colonel concealed that, even when the Moriarty gang was broken up, we could not incriminate him.

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