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Pagan

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpeɪɡən//
  • //pəˈɡɑːn//

A male given name from Latin.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Latin.

  2. 2

    A female given name.

    'I've always believed that one of the reasons she never named Pagan's father was to spare her a similar pain.' 'You don't know who he is?' 'No. And, at the risk of sounding like Candida, I'd give anything to find out.'

    In 2012, author Pagan Kennedy was hired by The New York Times magazine to write a column titled “Who Made That?” She began to hunt the people down behind inventions like sliced bread, the 3-D printer, and lipstick.

  3. 3

    A surname.

    Mrs Pagan was delivered of a posthumous child, and thereafter along with the infant (a girl), she brought a process of aliment against John Pagan, who was a hosier in Dumfries, and alleged to be wealthy,[…]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāgānus (“rustic, rural”).

proper noun

  1. 1

    datedThe city of Bagan, Myanmar.

  2. 2

    historicalThe 9th- to 13th-century Burmese kingdom which had its capital at this city.

Etymology

Borrowing from Burmese ပုဂံ (pu.gam). Doublet of Bagan.

Forms

plural
Pagans
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