Eugene
/ˈjuː.d͡ʒin/US/juˈd͡ʒin/
Eugene proper noun: a male given name from Ancient Greek.
Proper noun
Eugene
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- "Great praise the Duke of Marlb'ro' won / And our good Prince Eugene." / "Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" / Said little Wilhelmine1796, Robert Southey, After Blenheim
- Eoghan (Owen) is frequently Eugene, and our own O'Curry, though he plucked up courage to prefix the O' to his name in later life, never discarded the Eugene, which, however, is far from being a monstrosity like most of our West-Britonized names2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, . Cork University Press., →ISBN, page 8
- A city, the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States.
- The cities of Eugene and Springfield announced Friday evening that they would discontinue the use of AI-powered license plate cameras connected to the company called Flock Safety.2025 December 6, Chris Lehman, “Eugene and Springfield both announce end of Flock camera usage”, in Oregon Public Broadcasting, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026
Eugene meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese
Eugene in Tamil
- மீமரபணு
Eugene in Vietnamese
- male given name
- Êugêniô
Origin of Eugene
Borrowed from French Eugène, from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, “well born”), from εὖ (eû, “good, well”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “born a certain way”). Parallel to eugenics. Doublet of Yevgeny, Eugenius, and Owen.
Words formed from Eugene
Phrases with Eugene
Words that rhyme with Eugene
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
- lien
Questions about Eugene
- What does Eugene mean?
- Eugene means a male given name from Ancient Greek.
- What is Eugene in Tamil?
- Eugene in Tamil is மீமரபணு. See Eugene meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is Eugene?
- Eugene is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Eugene?
- Eugene is pronounced /ˈjuː.d͡ʒin/ (UK).
Words near Eugene in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Eugene (page history and authors); Eugene (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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