Meredith

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Meredith

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Alternative forms

• (surname): Merrihew

Etymology

From Welsh Maredudd (“great lord”).

Pronunciation

• (Wales) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɛdɪθ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɹədɪθ/

Proper noun

Meredith (countable and uncountable, plural Merediths)

1. A male given name from Welsh.
   • 1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

     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.

2. A female given name from Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.
   • 2004, Jo Goodman, Forever In My Heart, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 412:

     "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."

   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2017:

     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.

   • 2025 March 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’”, in CNN Business‎, archived from the original on 16 April 2025:

     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).

3. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Pitkin County, Colorado.
   2. A township in Cloud County, Kansas.
   3. An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Clare County, Michigan.
   4. A town and census-designated place therein, in Belknap County, New Hampshire.
   5. A town in Delaware County, New York, named after Samuel Meredith.
   6. A township in Wake County, North Carolina, mostly occupied by portions of Raleigh.
5. A town in the Shire of Moorabool, Victoria, Australia.

Derived terms

• Meredithian

See also

• Meridith
• Merida

Anagrams

• Merideth, mithered, theremid