Meredith

Proper noun

Meredith (countable and uncountable, plural Merediths)

1. A male given name from Welsh.
   • What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith. Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not.1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26
2. A female given name from Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.
   • "What did I hear you say her name was?"
     "Meredith. Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family."
     "Meredith," he repeated softly. "I like it."2004, Jo Goodman, Forever In My Heart, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 412
   • On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an...2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017
3. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
4. An unincorporated community in Pitkin County, Colorado.
5. A township in Cloud County, Kansas.
6. An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Clare County, Michigan.
7. A town and census-designated place therein, in Belknap County, New Hampshire.
8. A town in Delaware County, New York, named after Samuel Meredith.
9. A township in Wake County, North Carolina, mostly occupied by portions of Raleigh.
10. A town in the Shire of Moorabool, Victoria, Australia.