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Logan

American  
[loh-guhn] / ˈloʊ gən /

noun

  1. John or James Tah-gah-jute, c1725–80, leader of the Cayuga tribe.

  2. Joshua, 1908–1988, U.S. playwright, director, and producer.

  3. Mount, a mountain in Canada, in the Mount Elias Mountains: second highest peak in North America. 19,850 feet (6,050 meters).

  4. a city in N Utah.

  5. a male given name.


Logan 1 British  
/ ˈləʊɡən /

noun

  1. a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

logan 2 British  
/ ˈləʊɡən /

noun

  1. other names for rocking stone

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

logan 3 British  
/ ˈləʊɡən /

noun

  1. another name for bogan 1

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of logan

C18: from logging-stone, from dialect log to rock


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In actual reality, the Brewers are expected to follow Misiorowski with rookie Logan Henderson, with whom they would not part in the Skubal trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

"There are farmers really flailing away" and drastically concerned about fuel costs, Joe Logan, interim president of the Ohio Farmers Union, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

RBC analyst Logan Reich, in a note on Thursday, said the rationale behind a combined Starbucks-Chipotle “isn’t apparent to us given limited overlap between the businesses.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

For Winston Logan, who appears at the back of the photo on the far left, the image is a reminder of a very different Wolverhampton.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

But Logan Green protested: “We object to the form of the question, Your Honor. There’s been no testimony about immunity to anybody.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Fun fact: Loganberries are a cross between black- and raspberries; boysenberries of logan, black-, and raspberries.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

Here are the first tweets, which he later deleted, via Topsy: lara logan had to outdo anderson. where was her buddy mccrystal?

From Forbes ● Feb. 16, 2011

The large stone at the top was a logan, or rocking-stone.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 by Various

When I lay in the bed, that duvet was balanced like a logan stone on the ridge of my body shivering under it, and it oscillated as I shivered.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Venerable in their hoary antiquity stand those monuments of a long-vanished humanity, the cromlechs which are so numerous in Wales, sharing with the logan and the inscribed stone the peasant’s superstitious interest.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

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