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Megan

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmɛɡən//
  • United States//ˈmɛɡən//
  • United States//ˈmiːɡən//
  • United States//ˈmeɪɡən//
  • Australia//ˈmiːɡən//

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, from Welsh.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, from Welsh.

    Was it true that twenty-six years had passed, or had he dreamed and awakened to find Megan waiting for him by the big apple tree?

    It ended in the most excruciating way for Megan Rapinoe: a penalty kick skied over the crossbar, shock, disappointment, a rueful smile to herself.

  2. 2

    A locality in the Bellingen council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh Megan, cognate with English Margaret, ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).