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Lanigan

Lanigan proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Lanigan (countable and uncountable, plural Lanigans)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A town in the Rural Municipality of Usborne, No. 210, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Forms of Lanigan

pluralLanigans
alternative formLanagan

Origin of Lanigan

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Lonagáin (“descendant of Lonagán”), apparently a double diminutive of lon (“blackbird”), but possibly a variant of Flanagan.

Questions about Lanigan

What does Lanigan mean?
Lanigan means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Lanigan?
Lanigan is a proper noun.

Words near Lanigan in the dictionary

  1. Lanierian
  2. laniers
  3. laniferous
  4. lanifice
  5. lanifices
  6. Lanigan
  7. Lanigans
  8. lanigerous
  9. laniid
  10. laniids
  11. laniisoma

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