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hugo

/ˈhju.ɡoʊ/

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What does hugo mean?

noun

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

proper noun

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
  2. A surname from French.
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proper noun

  1. A statutory town, the county seat of Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
  2. A city, the county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Victor Hugo.
  3. Initialism of Human Genome Organisation.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈhju.ɡoʊ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈju.ɡoʊ/
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Neither Lamartine, Hugo, nor any other of the great writers of that period was influenced by music.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
Victor Hugo says somewhere in his works that he who drains a marsh must necessarily expect to hear the frogs croak.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
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Victor Hugo fully realized that the only education that serves is the one that increases human efficiency, not the one that retards it.
Elbert HubbardJohn Jacob AstorProject Gutenberg ebook #412
This work was aided, indeed, by a far greater man, Hugo Grotius; but here was shown the power of an established dogma.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
A Study in a Tower; HUGO seated at a table covered with maps and charts of the heavens, astronomical instruments, books, manuscripts, &c.
Adam Lindsay GordonPoems by Adam Lindsay GordonProject Gutenberg ebook #258