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Definitions for hughes
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Princeton's WordNet
Hughes, Ted Hughes, Edward James Hughesnoun
English poet (born in 1930)
Hughes, Langston Hughes, James Langston Hughesnoun
United States writer (1902-1967)
Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughesnoun
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
Hughes, Charles Evans Hughesnoun
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1862-1948)
Wiktionary
Hughesnoun
derived from the given name Hugh.
Hughesnoun
A Welsh surname; a variant of Howells.
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hughes
Hughes is a common Welsh and Irish surname derived from the Old French personal name Hugues (Hugh). It may also refer to a specific person, place, or company, such as the American industrialist Howard Hughes, or Hughes Network Systems, an American telecommunications company. The meaning of the name is "mind" or "spirit". The spelling and pronunciation of the name can vary.
Wikidata
Hughes
Hughes is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 78 at the 2000 census.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HUGHES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hughes is ranked #90 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Hughes surname appeared 236,271 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 80 would have the surname Hughes.
78.3% or 185,213 total occurrences were White.
16.1% or 38,111 total occurrences were Black.
2.4% or 5,836 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 4,655 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.5% or 1,252 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.5% or 1,181 total occurrences were Asian.
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heughs
sheugh
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hughes in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hughes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of hughes in a Sentence
When I first had my twins and was working full time, I did not make time for Hughes Parker at all, i did not see friends, exercise, sleep or eat enough. It led to a back injury.
I feel like I had a real connection to all of those characters in those John Hughes movies, [I've had some] really amazing feedback from people I really respect. I think for the most part people understood it was a nuanced conversation. It was also something that was difficult for me to write. I didn't want it to be misinterpreted and look like in any way I was turning my back on John Hughes or those movies because I still think they have tremendous value.
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.
In this instance, if true, if Dawn Hughes said she hit him first, then that would not be reactive violence.
On June 5, during a passport fraud investigation, the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service interviewed an individual claiming to be Barry O'Beirne. After being confronted with inconsistencies about his identity, the individual admitted his true name was William Howard Hughes Jr., and that he deserted from the US Air Force in 1983, capt. Hughes claimed that in 1983 he was depressed about being in the Air Force so he left, created the fictitious identity of O'Beirne and has been living in California ever since.
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Translations for hughes
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- هيوزArabic
- hughesCzech
- hughesDanish
- großGerman
- hughesEsperanto
- abrazosSpanish
- هیوزPersian
- halaaFinnish
- HughesFrench
- hughesIrish
- ह्यूजेसHindi
- HughesHungarian
- ՀյուզArmenian
- pelukanIndonesian
- hughesItalian
- חיבוקHebrew
- ヒューズJapanese
- ಹ್ಯೂಗ್ಸ್Kannada
- 휴즈Korean
- hughesLatin
- knuffelsDutch
- hughesNorwegian
- hughesPolish
- hughesPortuguese
- hughesRomanian
- ХьюзRussian
- hughesSwedish
- ஹியூஸ்Tamil
- హ్యూస్Telugu
- ฮิวจ์สThai
- sarılmakTurkish
- Х'юзUkrainian
- ہیوزUrdu
- ômVietnamese
- יוזYiddish
- 休斯Chinese
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