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Definition of Eugene

1. Noun. Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736).

2. Noun. A city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university.

Definition of Eugene

1. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek male given name) ¹

2. Proper noun. A town in Oregon ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eugene

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Eudoxian Eudoxians Eudromias morinellus Eudyptes Euflagellata Eugene 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 Eugenia Eugenia aromaticum

Literary usage of Eugene

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The emperor deemed the crisis so serious that he recalled eugene and sent him to Italy to the assistance of his ally. Vendôme at first opposed great ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He assumed the name of eugene IV, possibly anticipating a stormy pontificate similar to that of eugene III. Stormy, in fact, his reign was destined to be; ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Marlborough was at this moment joined by eugene, whose army was following at a ... Marlborough and eugene left Les- sines in the morning of 11 July 1708, ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"ins] eugene and Villars on the Rhine contingents present were those of the ... In vain eugene pledged his personal credit: the army of the Empire, ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"Thus it was that, with an army of only 115 squadrons and 85 battalions, eugene was powerless against the 300 squadrons and 240 battalions of Villars. ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"He put them into his fiction with lavish detail, with sympathy eugene SUE and ... eugene — Marie Joseph was his baptismal name, but he took that of eugene ..."

7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1909)
"(212 US 466) THE STEAM TUG eugene F. MORAN, Michael Moran, Claimant, and the Scows 15 D and 18 D, Henry Dubois Sons Company, Claimant, v. ..."

8. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The incapable duke of Villero!, who succeeded to the command of vhich Catinat had been deprived, ventured to attack eugene at Chiari, and was repulsed with ..."

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