Margaret

Definitions

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   countable, uncountable
2. A river in southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton. See Margaret River.
   countable, uncountable
3. A river in Kimberley region, Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law. See Margaret River.
   countable, uncountable
4. A moon of Uranus, named for a character in Much Ado About Nothing.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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العربيةمارجريتمَارْغَرِيت

БеларускаяМаргарыта

Catalàmargarida

ČeštinaMarkéta

DanskMargrethe

Ελληνικάμαργαρίτα

EsperantoMargareto

EestiMaret

SuomiMarketta

GaeilgeMáiréad

GalegoMargaMargarida

ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiMakaleka

עבריתמַרְגָּלִית

MagyarMargit

Հայերենմարգարիտ

Italianomargherita

日本語マーガレット

한국어마가렛

Latinamargarīta

LietuviųMargarita

LatviešuMargarita

Te Reo Māorimakere

NederlandsMargreetmargriet

PolskiMałgorzata

PortuguêsMargaretemargarida

RomânăMargareta

РусскийМа́ргаретМаргарита

Slovenčinamargaréta

SlovenščinaMarjeta

SvenskaMargareta

Examples

“Margaret shall now be queen, and rule⟳ the king; But I will rule⟳ both her, the king, and realm.”

“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!”

“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⟳: […]”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[…]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.”

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