Gregory
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See also: Grégory
English
Etymology
Via Latin Grēgorius, from post-classical Ancient Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios, “watchful, vigilant”), from Ancient Greek ἐγείρω (egeírō, “awaken, arouse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɛɡəɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Gregory (countable and uncountable, plural Gregorys)
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- 1990, Jonathan Kellerman, Time Bomb, page 163:
- The surname Graff was chosen because upscale consumers respect anything Teutonic - regard it as efficient, intelligent, and reliable. But only up to a point. A forename like Helmut or Wilhelm wouldn't have done. Too German. Too foreign. 'Gregory' scores high on the likability scale. All-American. Greg. He's one of the boys, with Teutonic ancestry.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A small town on the Gregory River in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.
- A small town and port in the Shire of Northampton, Western Australia.
- A city in Gregory County, South Dakota, United States.
- Synonym of Hopewell, Gibson County, Tennessee.
- A city in San Patricio County, Texas, United States.
Usage notes
Name of early saints, and of 16 popes. Used since Middle Ages; popular in the mid-twentieth century.
Quotations
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):: Act V, Scene III:
- Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have done this day.
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Translations
male given name
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Noun
Gregory (plural Gregorys)
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of Gregory Peck, a neck
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