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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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“I want my kids and my grandkids to be able to say, ‘The voice that you hear at Logan Airport is Yaya,’” said the 76-year-old retired DMV worker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Weber and Logan were given approximately 48 hours to respond to the DOJ’s letter.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Dean Logan, the Los Angeles county clerk and recorder, told The Guardian his office refused to review the list, in part because they didn’t consider the USB drive to be secure.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

That leaves right guard Cole Strange, a fifth-year veteran, likely starting alongside four rookies: left tackle Logan Taylor, left guard Jake Slaughter, center Jacob Spomer and right tackle Travis Burke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

During the afternoon, Miss Logan asked for volunteers to share what they were going to do during the summer; lots of hands went up.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez

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

Behind, towers the logan of Arlmes cliff, an interesting relic of druidical skill and superstition; while Riffa wood and Ottley Shevin complete the beauty of the landscape.

From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by John Lyth

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

The other would swing the logs of the Enchanted drive into the quiet holding-ground of the logan.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

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