hugh

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Definition of hugh in English Turkish dictionary

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hugh of saint-victor

Saint-Victor ile hugh

English - English

Definition of hugh in English English dictionary

A male given name

I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself.

{i} male first name

Hector Hugh Munro Auden Wystan Hugh Chamberlen Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Hefner Hugh Marston Hugh Capet Hugh of Saint Victor Latimer Hugh Lofting Hugh John MacDiarmid Hugh MacLennan John Hugh McCulloch Hugh Tyrone Hugh O'Neill 2nd earl of Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour Wilkins Maurice Hugh Frederick

popular in the Middle Ages, and in regular use in modern times

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Hugh Capet

{i} (938-996) King of France elected in 987, founder of the Capetian dynasty

Hugh Capet

born 938 died Oct. 14, 996, Paris, Fr. King of France (987-996), the founder of the Capetian dynasty. The son of a Frankish duke, he inherited vast estates in the regions of Paris and Orléans, which made him one of the most powerful vassals in France and a serious threat to the Carolingian king, Lothar. By 985 Hugh was the ruler of France in all but name, and two years later he was elected king. He immediately crowned his own son to ensure the line of succession, a practice continued until the time of Louis VII. He mediated disputes among French nobles and survived a conspiracy to betray him to Otto III

Hugh Chamberlen

born 1630, London, Eng. died 1720, London British midwife. He was grandnephew of Peter Chamberlen the Elder (1560-1631), who invented the obstetrical forceps. A midwife to Catherine, queen of Charles II of England, Hugh Chamberlen used his position to exploit his use of the forceps, previously a family secret, and referred to them in the preface to his translation of a French treatise on midwifery, a standard in obstetrics for 75 years. Near the end of his life, he sold his secret to a Dutch surgeon

Hugh Gaitskell

born April 9, 1906, London, Eng. died Jan. 18, 1963, London British politician. He taught political economy at the University of London and in World War II served in the ministry of economic warfare. He entered the House of Commons in 1945 and became minister of fuel and power (1947-50) and chancellor of the Exchequer (1950-51). Chosen to succeed Clement R. Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955, he reunited the party and moderated its policies before his sudden death

Hugh Grant

(born 1960) British movie actor who acted in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Notting Hill

Hugh Hefner

born April 9, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. magazine publisher and entrepreneur. After serving in the U.S. Army (1944-46), he attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949. In 1953 he founded Playboy, a magazine for men. Playboy's intellectually respectable articles and its forthright philosophy of hedonism made it a seminal influence on the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. Hefner later expanded his enterprise into nightclubs and other entertainment media

Hugh John Lofting

born Jan. 14, 1886, Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eng. died Sept. 26, 1947, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. British-born U.S. author and illustrator. He lived principally in the U.S. from 1912. He is known for his classic children's books about Doctor Dolittle, a chubby, gentle, eccentric physician to animals who learns their language the better to treat them. He originally created the character to entertain his children in letters he sent from the front during World War I. The Story of Dr. Dolittle (1920) won instant success; it was followed by The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle (1922, Newbery Medal), Dr. Dolittle in the Moon (1928), and Dr. Dolittle's Return (1933), among many other volumes

Hugh Latimer

born 1485, Thurcaston, Leicestershire, Eng. died Oct. 16, 1555, Oxford English Protestant martyr. The son of a prosperous yeoman farmer, he was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he came into contact with the doctrines of Martin Luther and converted to Protestantism. He supported Henry VIII's attempt to obtain a marriage annulment but was later excommunicated for refusing to accept the existence of purgatory or the need to venerate saints. He made a complete submission and briefly served as bishop of Worcester (1535-39). Again imprisoned on suspicion of heresy, he was freed with the accession of Edward VI, during whose brief reign he preached extensively. On Mary I's accession and the subsequent reversion to Catholicism, he was arrested for treason and burned at the stake

Hugh Lofting

born Jan. 14, 1886, Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eng. died Sept. 26, 1947, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. British-born U.S. author and illustrator. He lived principally in the U.S. from 1912. He is known for his classic children's books about Doctor Dolittle, a chubby, gentle, eccentric physician to animals who learns their language the better to treat them. He originally created the character to entertain his children in letters he sent from the front during World War I. The Story of Dr. Dolittle (1920) won instant success; it was followed by The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle (1922, Newbery Medal), Dr. Dolittle in the Moon (1928), and Dr. Dolittle's Return (1933), among many other volumes

Hugh MacDiarmid

{i} (1892-1978) one of the primary poets of Scotland

Hugh MacDiarmid

orig. Christopher Murray Grieve born Aug. 11, 1892, Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scot. died Sept. 9, 1978, Edinburgh Scottish poet. In 1922 he founded the monthly Scottish Chapbook, in which he published his lyrics and sparked the Scottish literary renaissance. A radical leftist, he rejected English as a medium and scrutinized modern society in verse written in "synthetic Scots," an amalgam of various dialects. A noted work is the extended rhapsody A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926). He later returned to standard English in such volumes as A Kist of Whistles (1947) and In Memoriam James Joyce (1955). He is regarded as Scotland's preeminent poet of the early 20th century

Hugh MacLennan

born March 20, 1907, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Can. died Nov. 7, 1990, Montreal, Que. Canadian novelist and essayist. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and earned a doctorate at Princeton, then taught at McGill University (1951-81). His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), and Voices in Time (1980). He won five Governor-General's awards for his fiction and nonfiction. He is regarded as the first major English-speaking novelist to use Canadian themes

Hugh Marston Hefner

born April 9, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. magazine publisher and entrepreneur. After serving in the U.S. Army (1944-46), he attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949. In 1953 he founded Playboy, a magazine for men. Playboy's intellectually respectable articles and its forthright philosophy of hedonism made it a seminal influence on the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. Hefner later expanded his enterprise into nightclubs and other entertainment media

Hugh McCulloch

born , Dec. 7, 1808, Kennebunk, Maine, U.S. died May 24, 1895, near Washington, D.C. U.S. financier and statesman. After teaching school in Boston, he moved in 1833 to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he was a lawyer and then a banker. Appointed U.S. secretary of the treasury (1865-69), he attempted to return the U.S. to the gold standard by withdrawing from circulation the paper money that had been issued during the American Civil War, but he was thwarted by public opposition. He was again secretary of the treasury from 1884 to 1885

Hugh O'Neill 2nd earl of Tyrone

born 1540 died July 20, 1616, Rome, Papal States Irish rebel. Born into the powerful O'Neill family of Ulster, he grew up in London, then returned to Ireland (1568) to assume his grandfather's title of earl of Tyrone. As chieftain of the O'Neills from 1593, he led skirmishes against the English and won the Battle of the Yellow Ford on the River Blackwater, Ulster, which sparked a countrywide revolt (1598). He received aid and troops from Spain (1601) but was defeated by the English at Kinsale and forced to surrender (1603). In 1607 he fled with about 100 chieftains and lived in Rome the rest of his life. The so-called "flight of the earls" brought an end to Gaelic Ulster, and the province was rapidly Anglicized

Hugh Shelton

Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff

Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell

born April 9, 1906, London, Eng. died Jan. 18, 1963, London British politician. He taught political economy at the University of London and in World War II served in the ministry of economic warfare. He entered the House of Commons in 1945 and became minister of fuel and power (1947-50) and chancellor of the Exchequer (1950-51). Chosen to succeed Clement R. Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955, he reunited the party and moderated its policies before his sudden death

Hugh of Saint-Victor

born 1096 died Feb. 11, 1141, Paris, Fr. Scholastic theologian who began the tradition of mysticism of the school of St.-Victor, Paris. He was influenced by St. Augustine of Hippo and by Dionysius the Areopagite and contributed to the development of natural theology. His theology anticipated some of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas

Bishop Hugh Latimer

an English bishop (=a Christian priest of high rank) who was one of the leaders of the Reformation in England (=the time when many Christians left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion) . When Mary I, who was a Catholic, became queen of England, she ordered him to be officially killed by being burned (1485-1555)

Hector Hugh Munro

orig. H(ector) H(ugh) Munro born Dec. 18, 1870, Akyab, Burma died Nov. 14, 1916, near Beaumont-Hamel, France Scottish writer. A journalist early in his career, he wrote political satires and worked as a foreign correspondent before settling in London in 1908. His comic short stories and sketches, which satirize the Edwardian social scene, were published in Reginald (1904), Reginald in Russia (1910), The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914); the best-known include "Tobermory" and "The Open Window." Studded with epigrams and with well-contrived plots, his stories reveal a vein of cruelty and a self-identification with the enfant terrible. He was killed in action in World War I

Hector Hugh Munro

(1870-1916) British short story author who used the pen name "Saki

John Hugh MacLennan

born March 20, 1907, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Can. died Nov. 7, 1990, Montreal, Que. Canadian novelist and essayist. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and earned a doctorate at Princeton, then taught at McGill University (1951-81). His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), and Voices in Time (1980). He won five Governor-General's awards for his fiction and nonfiction. He is regarded as the first major English-speaking novelist to use Canadian themes

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

born Dec. 15, 1916, Pongaroa, N.Z. died Oct. 6, 2004, London, Eng. New Zealand-born British biophysicist. Educated in Birmingham and Cambridge, he participated in the Manhattan Project, working on the separation of uranium isotopes for use in the atomic bomb. On his return to Britain, he began a series of investigations that led ultimately to his studies of DNA. His X-ray diffraction studies of DNA proved crucial to the determination of DNA's molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick, for which the three were awarded a 1962 Nobel Prize. He later applied X-ray diffraction techniques to the study of RNA. See also Rosalind Franklin

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

born March 13, 1884, Auckland, N.Z. died June 1, 1941, near Keswick, Cumberland, Eng. British novelist, critic, and dramatist. A natural storyteller, Walpole turned to writing and reviewing books after unsuccessful attempts at teaching and lay reading in the Anglican church. Among his important novels is the semiautobiographical series that includes Jeremy (1919), Jeremy and Hamlet (1923), and Jeremy at Crale (1927). The Herries Chronicle, about an English country family, comprises Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932), and Vanessa (1933). He also wrote critical works on Anthony Trollope, Walter Scott, and Joseph Conrad

Sir Hugh Thomas Munro

{i} (1856-1919) avid English mountaineer who was brought up in Scotland and after whom the Munro hills were named

Sir Hugh Walpole

born March 13, 1884, Auckland, N.Z. died June 1, 1941, near Keswick, Cumberland, Eng. British novelist, critic, and dramatist. A natural storyteller, Walpole turned to writing and reviewing books after unsuccessful attempts at teaching and lay reading in the Anglican church. Among his important novels is the semiautobiographical series that includes Jeremy (1919), Jeremy and Hamlet (1923), and Jeremy at Crale (1927). The Herries Chronicle, about an English country family, comprises Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932), and Vanessa (1933). He also wrote critical works on Anthony Trollope, Walter Scott, and Joseph Conrad

Wystan Hugh Auden

born Feb. 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, Eng. died Sept. 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria British-born U.S. poet and man of letters. He attended Oxford University, where he exerted a strong influence on C. Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender. Auden's varied works throughout his life dealt with intellectual and moral issues of public concern as well as with the inner world of fantasy and dream. In the 1930s he became a hero of the left, pointing up the evils of capitalism while also warning against those of totalitarianism. He collaborated with Christopher Isherwood on three verse dramas. Auden's later writing reflects changes in his life (he became a U.S. citizen) and in his religious and intellectual perspective (he embraced Christianity and became disillusioned with the left) and occasionally his homosexuality. His poetic works include The Age of Anxiety (1947, Pulitzer Prize) and the collections Another Time (1940) and Homage to Clio (1960). With his longtime companion Chester Kallman, he wrote opera librettos, notably The Rake's Progress (1951) for Igor Stravinsky

Hyphenation

Hugh

Turkish pronunciation

hyu

Pronunciation

/ˈhyo͞o/ /ˈhjuː/

Etymology

[ 'hyü-'kA-p&t, -'ka-, ] (biographical name.) Old French short form of Germanic names beginning with the element hug (“heart, mind”), such as Hubert.

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