margaret
/ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton. See Margaret River.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A river in Kimberley region, Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law. See Margaret River.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 800-word work (on a paper slightly bigger than a postcard) is one of 13 works submitted by a group of authors that includes Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Rowling used both sides of her card to handwrite the prequel to her seven-book Potter series."
- "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."
Etymology
From the name of 3rd century Saint Margaret the Virgin, 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/
- British English: /ˈmɑːɡɹɪt/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
Augusta-Margaret Rivers
Clee St Margaret
Lake Margaret
Margaret fish
Margaret River
Ormesby St Margaret
St Margaret
St Margaret's at Cliffe