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Hugo

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhjuː.ɡəʊ//
  • United States//ˈhju.ɡoʊ//
  • United States//ˈju.ɡoʊ//

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.

    He had liked a girl named Sandra in seventh grade. "Where did you get the name Hugo?" she had asked him once. "It sounds like a made-up name. What's your real name, Hugo? Or are you a Russian spy?"

  2. 2

    A surname from French.

  3. 3

    A statutory town, the county seat of Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.

  4. 4

    A city, the county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Victor Hugo.

Etymology

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

noun

  1. 1

    A Hugo Award, a statuette given out by the World Science Fiction Society.

    Red Mars (1992) won a Nebula and Green Mars (1993) won a Hugo.

Forms

plural
Hugos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).