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Eugenie

/juːˈdʒiːni/

Eugenie proper noun: a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Eugenia via French Eugénie.

Proper noun

Eugenie

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Eugenia via French Eugénie.
    • The name agreed upon the child was Eugenie Victoria, but that afternoon Melanie unwittingly bestowed a name that clung, even as "Pittypat" had blotted out all memory of Sarah Jane. — And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC

Words formed from Eugenie

Questions about Eugenie

What does Eugenie mean?
Eugenie means a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Eugenia via French Eugénie.
What part of speech is Eugenie?
Eugenie is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Eugenie?
Eugenie is pronounced /juːˈdʒiːni/.

Words near Eugenie in the dictionary

  1. eugenicism
  2. eugenicist
  3. eugenicists
  4. eugenicize
  5. eugenics
  6. Eugenie
  7. eugenin
  8. eugenism
  9. eugenist
  10. eugenists
  11. eugenite

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