name
Hugo
HYOO-goh
name
1
A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
"He had liked a girl named Sandra in seventh grade. "Where did you get the name Hugo?" she had asked him once. "It sounds like a made-up name. What's your real name, Hugo? Or are you a Russian spy?""
— Kitty Burns Florey (1986)
2
A surname from French.
3
A statutory town, the county seat of Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
4
A city, the county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Victor Hugo.
noun
1
A Hugo Award, a statuette given out by the World Science Fiction Society.
"Red Mars (1992) won a Nebula and Green Mars (1993) won a Hugo."
— James Gunn (2018)
Word Forms
Hugos plural
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Etymology
From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).