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    Craig
    noun
    Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
  • craig
    craig
    noun
    a Scot word for crag

Craig

American  
[kreyg] / kreɪg /

noun

  1. Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.

  2. a male given name: from a Welsh family name meaning “rock.”


Craig 1 British  
/ kreɪɡ /

noun

  1. Edward Gordon. 1872–1966, English theatrical designer, actor, and director. His nonrealistic scenic design greatly influenced theatre in Europe and the US

"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

craig 2 British  
/ kreɡ, kreɪɡ /

noun

  1. a Scot word for crag

"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

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“It really encapsulates everything,” said Craig Copeland, director of wealth research at EBRI, who wrote the report.

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Two days later, a man named Craig Mann was found dead in the trailer he was sharing with his partner.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Whoever replaces Hughes - who has also taken two members of Liverpool's recruitment staff in Mark Burchill and Craig McKee to the Middle East - they will have plenty to address.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

“Just don’t let anyone break his nose,” I said to Craig as the two of them walked out the door.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

It is like some unseen ethereal ocean whose silver surf forever breaks in song; forever breaks on valley, hill, and craig, in ten thousand symphonies.

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Robert L. Taylor

But whaur Tam hung there was naething but the craig, and the sea below, and the solans skirling and flying.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

An' sae lang's I live, I'll regaird this as ane o' her fedders 'at the angel moutit as she sat by the bored craig.

From Malcolm by George MacDonald

By a charter, upon record, dated 25th February, 1458, the king grants to Walter Scott of Kirkurd, ancestor of the house of Buccleuch, the lands of Abingtown, Phareholm, and Glentonan craig, in Lanarkshire.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

She sought him east, she sought him west, She sought him braid and narrow; Syne, in the cleaving of a craig She found him drown'd in Yarrow.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

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