Edgar

• (surname): Eagar

From Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir.

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɡɚ/

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Edgar

1. A male given name from Old English.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     What? did my father's godson seek your life? He whom my father nam'd? your Edgar?

   • 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Random House, →ISBN, page 62:

     My father was the eldest of three sons, each of whom was given Adelia's idea of a high-toned name: Norval and Edgar and Percival, Arthurian revival with a hint of Wagner.

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Edgar County, Illinois.
   2. A minor city and township in Clay County, Nebraska.
   3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
   4. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
4. A community in Oro-Medonte, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
5. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A hairstyle often sported by Latino teenage boys that combines a bowl cut with a high fade.
   1. (by extension) One who wears that hairstyle

• Edgar County
• Edgartown

Edgar (plural Edgars)

1. (informal) An Edgar Allan Poe Award, honoring works in the mystery genre.

• Edgar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Edgar (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Adger, Degar, Gerda, garde, grade, radge, raged

From English Edgar, from Old English. Also from Edgardo.

Edgar

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Old English]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Edgar.

Borrowed from English Edgar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.xɑr/, /ˈɛt.ɡɑr/

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• Hyphenation: Ed‧gar

Edgar m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Edgar

Edgar

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Edgar

• IPA^(key): /ɛd.ɡaʁ/

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Edgar m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Edgar

• égard
• garde, gardé

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛt.ɡaːɐ̯/, [ˈʔɛt.ɡ̊aːɐ̯]
• Hyphenation: Ed‧gar

Edgar m (proper noun, strong, genitive Edgars or Edgar, plural Edgars)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Edgar

• “Edgar” in Duden online

Borrowed from English Edgar, from Old English Ēadgār. Doublet of Audgeir.

• IPA^(key): /¹ɛdːɡa(ː)r/

Edgar m (definite Edgaren)

1. a male given name from English

• Édgar, Edgardo

Borrowed from English Edgar, from Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir.

• Hyphenation: Ed‧gar

Edgar m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Edgar