Morgan

¹ American  

[mawr-guhn] / ˈmɔr gən /

noun

1. one of a breed of light carriage and saddle horses descended from the stallion Justin Morgan.

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Morgan ² American  

[mawr-guhn] / ˈmɔr gən /

noun

1. Charles Langbridge 1894–1958, English novelist and critic.

2. Daniel, 1736–1802, American Revolutionary general.

3. Sir Henry, 1635?–88, Welsh buccaneer in the Americas.

4. John Hunt, 1826–64, Confederate general in the American Civil War.

5. J(ohn) P(ierpont) 1837–1913, U.S. financier and philanthropist.

6. his son John Pierpont, 1867–1943, U.S. financier.

7. Julia, 1872–1957, U.S. architect.

8. Lewis Henry, 1818–81, U.S. ethnologist and anthropologist.

9. Thomas Hunt, 1866–1945, U.S. zoologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1933.

10. a male or female given name.

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Morgan ¹ British  

/ ˈmɔːɡən /

noun

1. Edwin ( George ). (1920–2010), Scottish poet, noted esp for his collection The Second Life (1968) and his many concrete and visual poems; appointed Scottish national poet 2004

2. Sir Henry. 1635–88, Welsh buccaneer, who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English

3. John Pierpont. 1837–1913, US financier, philanthropist, and art collector

4. ( Hywel ) Rhodri (ˈrɒdrɪ). born 1939, Welsh Labour politician; first minister of Wales (2000–09)

5. Thomas Hunt. 1866–1945, US biologist. He formulated the chromosome theory of heredity. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1933

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Morgan ² British  

/ ˈmɔːɡən /

noun

1. an American breed of small compact saddle horse

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Morgan Scientific  

/ môr′gən /

1. American zoologist whose experiments with fruit flies demonstrated that hereditary traits are carried by genes on chromosomes and that traits can cross over from one chromosome to another. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1933.

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Etymology

Origin of Morgan

First recorded in 1865–70; named after the original sire owned by Justin Morgan (1747–98), a New England teacher

Example Sentences

But she was encouraged to try when the Labour First Minister Eluned Morgan visited her charity.

From BBC

"It's about the feeling at that precise moment," Wyn Morgan says, "how it makes you feel emotionally," rather than something more scientific which requires you to know about everything you see.

From BBC

The closely followed investor, who runs the Duquesne Family Office, made the comments in an interview for “Hard Lessons,” a Morgan Stanley podcast that was published on Friday.

From MarketWatch

“I had to look inside myself, look at my world and find something that wasn’t the Beatles,” he says in “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run,” a new documentary directed by Morgan Neville.

From The Wall Street Journal

Morgan analyst Tien-tsin Huang wrote in a note that a new “world of work” is “impending,” and that Block is “proactively restructuring” the company to adapt to that reality.

From MarketWatch