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Meredith
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English
Alternative forms
surname en Merrihew
Etymology
From en cy Maredudd great lord.
Pronunciation
en /məˈɹɛdɪθ/ Wales
en /ˈmɛɹədɪθ/
Proper noun
~ s
en male Welsh.
en 1942 w:Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs 26 HarperCollins 1994 0006163726 What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith. Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not.
en female Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.
en 2004 Jo Goodman Forever In My Heart 412 Zebra Books 082177784X "What did I hear you say her name was?""Meredith. Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family.""Meredith," he repeated softly. "I like it."
en January 12, 2017 Jesse Hassenger A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks w:The Onion AV Club http://www.avclub.com/review/literal-monster-truck-far-stupidest-thing-about-mo-248111 On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick. https://web.archive.org/web/20170127025219/http://www.avclub.com/review/literal-monster-truck-far-stupidest-thing-about-mo-248111
en Jordan Valinsky Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’ w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/food/chilis-restaurant-scranton-the-office 2025-03-26 Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer). https://web.archive.org/web/20250416211900/https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/food/chilis-restaurant-scranton-the-office/
en Welsh < patronymics.
en number of places c/USA:
en ucomm co/Pitkin County s/Colorado.
en twp co/Cloud County s/Kansas.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Franklin co/Clare County s/Michigan.
en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Belknap County s/New Hampshire. TopoZone: Meredith, New Hampshire
en town co/Delaware County s/New York, named after Samuel Meredith.
en twp co/Wake County s/North Carolina mostly occupied by portions of city/Raleigh.
en town in the shire:Pref/Moorabool s/Victoria c/Australia.
Derived terms
en MerDer Meredithian
See also
en Meridith
en Merida
References
Anagrams
en deehimrt Merideth mithered theremid
en unisex given names