Eugene

¹ American  

[yoo-jeen, yoo-jeen] / yuˈdʒin, ˈyu dʒin /

noun

1. a city in W Oregon.

2. a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “wellborn.”

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Eugène ² American  

[œ-zhen] / œˈʒɛn /

noun

1. Prince François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan, 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France.

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Eugène British  

/ øʒɛn /

noun

1. Prince, title of François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan. 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France: with Marlborough defeated the French at Blenheim (1704), Oudenaarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709)

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Example Sentences

Eugene Ludwig is chair of the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity and former U.S. comptroller of the currency.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

That's good news for fans who fell in love with the yearning empathy of early songs like Black Dog, Eugene and Weightless.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

On this extra episode of Amicus, exclusive to our Plus members, Mark Joseph Stern is joined by military law expert Eugene Fidell, a visiting lecturer and senior research scholar at Yale Law School.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

This was likely due to lower domestic petrol and diesel prices, as well as softer pork prices, said Eugene Tan of Moody’s Analytics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

On that hot, beautiful Sunday afternoon, a seventeen-year-old black teenager named Eugene Williams was swimming at the 29th Street Beach on the shores of Lake Michigan.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler