Hugo

//ˈhjuː.ɡəʊ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Hugo Award, a statuette given out by the World Science Fiction Society.

    "Red Mars (1992) won a Nebula and Green Mars (1993) won a Hugo."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.

    "He had liked a girl named Sandra in seventh grade. "Where did you get the name Hugo?" she had asked him once. "It sounds like a made-up name. What's your real name, Hugo? Or are you a Russian spy?""

  2. 2
    Initialism of Human Genome Organisation. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    A surname from French.
  4. 4
    A statutory town, the county seat of Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
  5. 5
    A city, the county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Victor Hugo.

Synonyms

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victor marie hugo

Example

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"A litany of taste tests enabled Hugo to distinguish between a variety of pastes."

Etymology

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

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choctaw countycounty seatlincoln county

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