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Ugwu

Ugwu proper noun: a surname from Igbo.

Proper noun

Ugwu (plural Ugwus)

  1. A surname from Igbo.
    • On Tuesday, Buzzfeed published a long piece by Reggie Ugwu, looking at how a variant of instrumental electronic music had become the favoured soundtrack of the “alt-right”, the US-based far-right movement. Within hours, a website whose strapline declares it is “destroying Jewish tyranny” had picked...2016 December 14, Michael Hann, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2018

Forms of Ugwu

pluralUgwus

Origin of Ugwu

Borrowed from Igbo úgwú (“mountain, hill”), a topographic surname.

Questions about Ugwu

What does Ugwu mean?
Ugwu means a surname from Igbo.
What part of speech is Ugwu?
Ugwu is a proper noun.

Words near Ugwu in the dictionary

  1. Ugu
  2. uguisubari
  3. UGV
  4. UGVs
  5. UGW
  6. Ugwu
  7. Ugwunagbo
  8. Ugwus
  9. uh
  10. uh huh
  11. uh oh

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