Margaretina

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proper noun

A female given name of rare usage.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A female given name of rare usage.

    Before his marriage his wife’s name was Margaretina Farrell.

    1916 July 29, “Charged with Bigamy. Solder in Trouble. Arrested at the Prison Gate.”, in South Wales Weekly Argus […], number 4019 (1279, New Series), Newport, →OCLC, page 6, column 4
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    A married man named James Trevarrow was arrested at Golden-square yesterday afternoon by Constable Mulheron on a charge of carnally knowing and abusing a child eleven years of age, named Margaretina Bruggy, the daughter of a miner living in New Chum.

    1876 March 2, “Shocking Cases of Immorality”, in The Bendigo Advertiser, volume XXIII, number 6468, Sandhurst, Vic., →OCLC, page [2], column 6

    Margaretina “Tina” Gregory Ervin, 68, of Statesville, passed away, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at Iredell Memorial Hospital.

    2018 March 23, “[Obituaries] Tina Ervin”, in Statesville Record & Landmark, volume 143, number 82, Statesville, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9A, column 3

Origin

From Margaret + -ina.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Margaretian
Cite this entry
APA

Margaretina. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Margaretina

MLA

“Margaretina.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Margaretina. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Margaretina,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Margaretina.

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