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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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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

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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