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Edgar
1[ ed-ger ]
noun
- an award given annually in various categories of mystery writing.
Edgar
2[ ed-ger ]
noun
- a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “spear.”
Edgar
/ ˈɛɡə /
noun
- Edgar944975MEnglishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 944–975 ad , king of Mercia and Northumbria (957–975) and of England (959–975)
- Edgar?10741107MScottishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler ?1074–1107, king of Scotland (1097–1107), fourth son of Malcolm III. He overthrew his uncle Donald to gain the throne
- EdgarDavid1948MBritishTHEATRE: dramatist David. born 1948, British dramatist, noted for political plays such as Destiny (1976), Maydays (1983), and Albert Speer (1999): he adapted (1980) Nicholas Nickleby and (1991) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the RSC
Word History and Origins
Origin of Edgar1
Example Sentences
There were also paintings by his father, Juan Edgar Aparicio, an artist whose work captured the trauma of the Salvadoran civil war.
Edgar Verduzco, 28, was arrested and charged with murder and related offenses in connection with a suspected DUI crash on the 605 Freeway that killed a family of three in 2017.
She was also photographed in a white wedding gown surrounded by film crew for a scene believed to be her marriage to Heathcliff's rival, Edgar Linton.
The ex-president even debated a secret plan to suspend the Fourth Amendment and make nationwide mass arrests, a proposal eventually vetoed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
The man, who has been named as 79-year-old Edgar Charles Frederick, died on Thursday after being struck in the accident on a main road in the capital, Nairobi.
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