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Definitions: Eugene |
EugeneNoun1. Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736). 2. A city in eastern Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Eugene" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born". |
Date "Eugene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: EugeneSynonym: Prince Eugene of Savoy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eugene |
| English words defined with "Eugene": Augustin Eugene Scribe ♦ Blenheim ♦ Eugene Curran Kelly, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Eugene Ionesco, Eugene Luther Vidal, Eugene O'Neill, Eugene Ormandy, Eugene Paul Wigner, Eugene Sue, Eugene V. Debs, Eugene Victor Debs, Eugene Wigner ♦ Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix ♦ Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau ♦ Louis Eugene Felix Neel ♦ Prince Eugene of Savoy ♦ theater of the absurd. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Eugene": Anarchists ♦ BRIEUX ♦ Eugene Green ♦ Fifteen decisive Battles ♦ JEW ♦ killer micro ♦ pyg ♦ riches. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eugene" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Eugene). |
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Screenplays | Here lies Thomas Eugene Paris, beloved mutant. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) Gil, none of the women were invited to the paintball game, and we'd like to know why. (Levy, Eugene (I)@Gil Bender): Well, darn it, so would I! (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Francesco Barilli) Yeah, too bad, Eugene! (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Jeep Popeye Presents Eugene (1940) Eugene Aram (1924) The Dream of Eugene Aram (1923) Eugene Aram (1915) Eight Men Called Eugene (1996) | |
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![]() | George Eugene Belknap 1832-1903.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | A study in geometry - looking up a Bilby tower Station South Bend, Louisiana Traingulation Party of Eugene R. McCarthy.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Admiral Eugene Taylor, NOAA Corps.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Lieutenant Eugene Taylor observing with Bamberg instrument Astro party of Lieutenant Eugene Taylor.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Unloading a float plane - Ensign Eugene W. Richards on right.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Claudia Katko (63) and her husband Eugene (73) work on their flower garden outside their home in Ashliegh Heights, FL.Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Materials engineer Patricia Bel-Berger and chemists Bill Goynes (center) and Eugene Blanchard examine scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) that show the structure of a white-speck nep. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | Historic ruin in New Mexico, one of the buildings that makes up the Dripping Springs Resort in southern NM. Originally it was called Col. Eugene Van Patten's Mountain Camp named for the man who built it in the 1870's.Credit: Unknown. | |
Cheshire Mayrsohn, Botanist in the McKenzie Resource Area, Eugene District.Credit: John Craig. | Wildlife viewing platform at the West Eugene Wetlands Project Site.Credit: D. Huntington. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Eugene Delacroix | We work not only to produce but to give value to time. |
Eugene Field | A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. |
| Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. | |
| All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it. | |
Eugene Ionesco | A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. |
| Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. | |
| Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichTs. | |
Eugene J. Mccarthy | It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | Laurie: Eugene! Your father wants us to go to the store. |
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Health | Williams, Gordon H. and Dluhy, Robert G., "Diseases of the Adrenal Cortex," in Harnson's Principles of Internal Medicine, 11th edition, edited by Eugene Braunwald, Kurt J. Isselbacher, Robert G. Petersdorf, Jean D. Wilson, Joseph B. Martin, and Anthony S. Fauci. (references) | |
Business | The hair color market is fully controlled by leading Western manufacturers such as L'Oreal, Wella, Schwarzkopf, Eugene Perma, Revlon, Indola, Londa, etc. Not long ago world famous professional brands such as Michael John, Jean Claude Biguine, Selective, Profilock, Phyto, Aveda, Keune, Kydra, and JF Lazartiques were brought to the Russian market. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | Under the Gbagbo Government, Freedom Neruda was named an ambassador, and Eugene Allou became Chief of Cabinet. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | In August 2000, the public prosecutor had gendarmes detain Notre Voie journalist Freedom Neruda and publisher Eugene Allou and bring them in for questioning. (references) | |
Human Rights | Togo | In its final report released in February, the U.N./OAU Commission of Inquiry reported the disappearance of the following six persons, previously unreported, each of whom was last seen under arrest by security forces in 1998: Koffi "Hitler" Akakpossa, last seen on December 22; Nicolas Assiongbon, last seen in October; Adrisse "Ringo" Djiewone, last seen on August 10; Yao Homawoo, last seen February 8; Kokou Akakpo, last seen February 7; Eugene Senyo, last seen February 7. There were no developments in the 1994 disappearance of David Bruce, a high-level Foreign Ministry employee sympathetic to the opposition, which remained under investigation by the Government. (references) |
Political Rights | Togo | He replaced Eugene Koffi Adoboli, a former career U.N. officer who was not a member of the ruling party. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RICHES, n. A gift from Heaven signifying, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." John D. Rockefeller The reward of toil and virtue. J.P. Morgan The sayings of many in the hands of one. Eugene Debs To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eugene" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eugene" is used about 200 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 200 | 21,580 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Eugene" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Eugene | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,993 |
| Eugene | First name Male | 230,000 | 80 |
| Eugene | Last name | 2,000 | 6,970 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Eugene" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Eugene." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Eugene | Male | English | N/A |
| Eugenia | Female | English | Eugene |
| Gene | Male | English | Eugene |
| Eugénie | Female | French | Eugene |
| Eugène | Male | French | Eugene |
| Eugen | Male | German | Eugene |
| Jenõ | Male | Hungarian | Eugene |
| Eugenia | Female | Italian | Eugene |
| Eugenio | Male | Italian | Eugene |
| Eugênia | Female | Portuguese | Eugene |
| Eugênio | Male | Portuguese | Eugene |
| Eugen | Male | Romanian | Eugene |
| Eugenia | Female | Romanian | Eugene |
| Evgeni | Male | Russian | Eugene |
| Eugenia | Female | Spanish | Eugene |
| Eugenio | Male | Spanish | Eugene |
| Owain | Male | Welsh | Eugene |
| Owain | Male | Welsh Mythology | Eugene |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Eugene, MO (town, FIPS 22798) 2. Eugene, OR (city, FIPS 23850) |
Expressions using "Eugene": Augustin Eugene Scribe ♦ Eugene Curran Kelly ♦ Eugene Delacroix ♦ Eugene Gladstone O'Neill ♦ Eugene Ionesco ♦ Eugene Luther Vidal ♦ Eugene O'Neill ♦ Eugene Ormandy ♦ Eugene Paul Wigner ♦ Eugene Sue ♦ Eugene V. Debs ♦ Eugene Victor Debs ♦ Eugene Wigner ♦ Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix ♦ Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau ♦ Louis Eugene Felix Neel ♦ prince Eugene of Savoy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
eugene oregon | 3,565 | eugene weather | 38 |
eugene | 319 | eugene field | 37 |
eugene register guard | 281 | eugene oneill | 35 |
eugene emerald | 113 | eugene carriere | 33 |
city of eugene | 100 | eugene job | 32 |
eugene levy | 92 | eugene or apartment | 32 |
eugene o neill | 90 | gene eugene | 31 |
eugene oregon real estate | 86 | eugene oregon university | 31 |
eugene newspaper | 78 | eugene mccarthy | 30 |
eugene hotel | 78 | eugene debs | 29 |
eugene oregon newspaper | 76 | hotel eugene oregon | 29 |
eugene fulton | 73 | eugene oneill theater | 28 |
eugene public library | 73 | eugene oregon weather | 27 |
eugene delacroix | 64 | register guard eugene oregon | 26 |
eugene airport | 63 | eugene rental | 26 |
eugene ionesco | 56 | eugene atget | 25 |
eugene o neill theater | 50 | city of eugene oregon | 25 |
eugene weekly | 50 | eugene oregon apartment | 25 |
eugene real estate | 47 | eugene oregon airport | 25 |
eugene the jeep | 43 | eugene security | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Eugene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尤金塞爾南 (Eugene Cernan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Eugene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eugeneay юджин, Евгений. (various references) judžin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Eugene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Augen, Celgene, Eigene, Eirene, Eogene, Ergene, Euenor, Euge, Eugeen, Eugena, Eugenes, Eugeni, eugenol, eugine, Eumenea, Eupen, Eusebe, Evgenny, Umgeni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-n-u" | |
-2 letters: gene, genu. | |
-3 letters: eng, gee, gen, gnu, gun, nee. | |
-4 letters: en, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-n-u" | |
+2 letters: hegumene, merengue. | |
+3 letters: fenugreek, hegumenes, merengues, supergene, ungenteel. | |
+4 letters: effulgence, eigenvalue, enfleurage, fenugreeks, greenhouse, hegumenies, hugenesses, refulgence, resurgence, revengeful, supergenes. | |
+5 letters: beguilement, effulgences, eigenvalues, emmenagogue, enfleurages, genuflected, genuineness, gleefulness, greenhouses, meshuggener, mutageneses, refulgences, resurgences, seigneuries, squeegeeing, submergence, turgescence, unbeseeming, undelegated, unsegmented, vaguenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 67 65 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u g e n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 0067 0065 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398773718071 |
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