meredith
/məˈɹɛdɪθ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith. Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not."
- ""What did I hear you say her name was?" "Meredith. Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family." "Meredith," he repeated softly. "I like it.""
- "On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick."
- "Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer)."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Maredudd