Margaret
pronunciation
How to pronounce Margaret in British English:
UK [ˈmɑ:ɡərit]
How to pronounce Margaret in American English:
US [ˈmɑrɡərət, -ɡrət]
Word Origin
- Margaret
- fem. proper name (c. 1300), from Old French Margaret (French Marguerite), from Late Latin Margarita, female name, literally "pearl," from Greek margarites (lithos) "pearl," of unknown origin, "probably adopted from some Oriental language" [OED]; compare Sanskrit manjari "cluster of flowers," also said by Indian linguists to mean "pearl," cognate with manju "beautiful." Arabic marjan probably is from Greek, via Syraic marganitha. The word was widely perverted in Germanic languages by folk-etymology, for example Old English meregrot, which has been altered to mean literally "sea-pebble."
Example
- 1. Margaret a. hamburg , m.d. is the commissioner of food and drugs
- 2. He had pneumonia and dementia , said his wife , margaret miller .
- 3. Friedman 's direct influence on margaret thatcher was much less than often supposed .
- 4. Hague made a series of speeches which reread today rival margaret thatcher 's in their prescience .
- 5. Europe helped bring down two of britain 's recent prime ministers , margaret thatcher and john major .