Margaret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɡɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑːɡəɹɪt/
ipa: /-ət/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹɡəɹɪt/
ipa: /-ət/
Forms: form: Margarets
Etymology: From the name of a legendary third century saint, from Middle English Margaret, from Old French Margaret (French Marguerite), from Latin Margarita, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”), ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.
The same source, through folk etymology, has produced Old English meregrot (“pearl”, literally “stone or pebble of the sea”), related to Old Saxon merigrita, merigriota (“pearl”), Old High German merigrioz, equivalent to mer- + groat.
Senses: examples: text: Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: Margaret, Marguerite - the pearl! the daisy! Oh name of romance and of minstrelsy, which brings the days of chivalry to mind, and the worship of flowers and ladies fair!
ref: 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names:
text: Fair as a summer dream was Margaret,— / Such dream as in a poet's soul might start, / Musing of old loves while the moon doth set: […]
ref: 1844, James Russell Lowell, “A Legend of Brittany. Part First.”, in Poems, Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, →OCLC, stanza I, page 3:
text: Amongst us English, the name is a greater favourite than with any other nation: but we have played upon it, and abused it oftener too. In no language does Margaret sound sweeter or homelier than in ours: not so Mag, Maggie, Meg, Madge, Moggie, Peg, Peggy, and abominable Piggy, of which abridgements only the two first are defensible.
ref: 1868, Bentley's Miscellany, London, page 417:
text: The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn. There was also a girl named Margaret, named after her grandmother, who worked at the post office. I ended up talking with Margaret.
ref: 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A river in southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton. See Margaret River.
glosses: A river in Kimberley region, Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law. See Margaret River.
examples: text: Astronomers discovered nine small moons lying outside the orbit of Oberon (Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, and Ferdinand) between 1997 and 2003.
ref: 2009, Richard Schmude, Jr., Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them, page 58:
text: The odd one out is Margaret, which travels in a "normal" prograde direction, though it has the most eccentric orbit of all the Uranian satellites.
ref: 2012, Peter Bond, Exploring the Solar System, page 297:
text: […]moons known to be moving in a prograde or direct orbit is Margaret, orbiting Uranus at an average distance of nearly nine million miles (14,845,000 km) in an orbit that currently exceeds all other Solar System moons in terms of eccentricity (0.7979).[…]Margaret takes about 4.6 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the planet.
ref: 2013, David A. J. Seargent, Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond, page 225:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Uranus, named for a character in Much Ado About Nothing.
Derived terms: word: Augusta-Margaret Rivers
word: Clee St Margaret
word: Margaret fish
topics: winegrowing-region
region
location
english: town
translation: town
word: Margaret River
word: Ormesby St Margaret
word: St Margaret
word: St Margaret's at Cliffe
word: St Margaret's Bay
word: Stratton St Margaret
word: Tivetshall St Margaret
Related terms: word: margarine
word: margarita
word: margarite
word: margherita
word: Margherita
word: marguerite
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word: Gretchen
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word: Madge
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word: Mae
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word: Maggie
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word: Mags
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word: Maisie
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word: Margaery
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word: Marge
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word: Margery
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word: Margie
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word: Margo
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word: Margot
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word: Marguerite
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word: Marjorie
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word: Marjory
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word: May
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word: Meg
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word: Megan
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word: Meggie
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word: Megs
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word: Peg
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word: Peggy
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word: Rita
word: Daisy
word: marguerite
word: moggy
word: Pearl