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Margaret - What does it mean?

Definition of 'Margaret'

English

Proper noun

(en-proper noun)
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  • * 1590 William Shakespeare: First Part of King Henry the Sixth: Act V, Scene V (the closing lines):
  • Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
    But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.
  • * 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Cottage Names :
  • 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!
  • * 1868 Bentley's Miscellany, London. p.417:
  • 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.
  • * 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 292:
  • 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 .
  • A river of southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of .
  • A river of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law.
  • (astronomy) A moon of Uranus, named for a character in .
  • * 2009 , Richard Schmude, Jr., Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them , page 58,
  • 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.
  • * 2012 , Peter Bond, Exploring the Solar System , page 297,
  • 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.
  • * 2013 , David A. J. Seargent, Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond , page 225,
  • ' Margaret takes about 4.6 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the planet.

    Derived terms

    * Margaret River (qualifier)

    See also

    * Daisy * Pearl * marguerite * moggy

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