Logan
Americannoun
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John or James Tah-gah-jute, c1725–80, leader of the Cayuga tribe.
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Joshua, 1908–1988, U.S. playwright, director, and producer.
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Mount, a mountain in Canada, in the Mount Elias Mountains: second highest peak in North America. 19,850 feet (6,050 meters).
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a city in N Utah.
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a male given name.
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Etymology
Origin of logan
C18: from logging-stone, from dialect log to rock
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Growing up in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia there was a group of food stores two blocks from my home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Other senior researchers involved in the study included McGill scientist Logan Walsh and CR-CHUM collaborators Bertrand Routy and Arielle Elkrief.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Economists said they would instead look to officials like Logan and Musalem for a sense of what may be to come.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Logan attempts to medicate him so that he and Caliban can rest, but Xavier fights him off, falls out of his wheelchair and has a telepathic seizure that begins to affect everyone around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
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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 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
And the boulder, which must have been balanced like a logan stone, went crashing over the side of the precipice the moment she had released her hold on it and recovered her equilibrium.
From Bandit Love by Juanita Savage
They are also called logan stones and "hoar" stones, hoar meaning a boundary, inasmuch as they were frequently used in later times to mark the boundary of an estate, parish, or manor.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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