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Hugo

proper noun

  1. male given name
  2. family name
  3. place name
  4. literary award
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.ɡəʊ/ / /ˈhju.ɡoʊ/ / /ˈju.ɡoʊ/

name

Etymology: From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.

    “He had liked a girl named Sandra in seventh grade. "Where did you get the name Hugo?" she had asked him once. "It sounds like a made-up name. What's your real name, Hugo? Or are you a Russian spy?"”

  2. A surname from French.
  3. A statutory town, the county seat of Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
  4. A city, the county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Victor Hugo.

noun

Etymology: From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

  1. A Hugo Award, a statuette given out by the World Science Fiction Society.

    “Red Mars (1992) won a Nebula and Green Mars (1993) won a Hugo.”