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.”

---

Eugène ² American  

[œ-zhen] / œˈʒɛn /

noun

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

---

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)

---

Compare meaning

How does eugene compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• Eugene vs. Debs

Example Sentences

Eventually, she moved him to Eugene, Ore., to be closer to friends.

From The Wall Street Journal

Trujillo said he once played office golf — blue cardboard for water hazards; brown paper for sand traps — with actors Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy while the movie “A Mighty Wind” was being edited.

From Los Angeles Times

In Eugene, Cristobal was guarded about the football team’s operations, going one step beyond the typical approach of closing practices to outsiders.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the new revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, she gets to display not only her patented emotionalism but also a strategic restraint that keeps every option open.

From Los Angeles Times

But those hopes went out the window last month in Eugene, Ore., where the playoff-bound Ducks dealt the Trojans their third loss of the year.

From Los Angeles Times