Miranda

plural Mirandas

1. countableA female given name originating as a coinage [in turn from Latin].

   Admir'd Miranda! Indeed, the top of admiration; worth What's dearest in the world!

   ~1611 William Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act III, Scene I

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   Miranda Guzman alleges that the state’s vaccine mandate violates a 2023 West Virginia law that stipulates the government would not be able to “substantially burden” someone’s constitutional right to freedom of religion unless doing so “is essential to further a compelling governmental interest.”

   2025 June 24, John Raby, “A West Virginia parent sues seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations”, in AP News, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025

2. countableuncountableastronomyOne of the moons of the planet of Uranus.

   A patchwork of cratered terrain and younger, complex formations, Miranda may have been repeatedly shattered by collisions and reassembled by gravity.

   1990 August, Bradford A. Smith, “Voyage of the Century”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 63

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   When Red Dwarf had stopped for supplies at Miranda, he'd spent the last afternoon of his three-day ship leave and all his wages buying the smallest, healthiest animal with the best pedigree he could find.

   1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

3. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
4. countableuncountableA suburb of Sydney in the Sutherland council area, New South Wales, Australia.

plural Mirandas

1. A surname from the Romance languages.
   1. countableuncountableA surname from Spanish.
   2. countableuncountableA surname from Portuguese.
   3. countableuncountableA surname from Italian.
2. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableOne of 23 states in Venezuela. Capital: Los Teques. Named after Francisco de Miranda.
   2. countableuncountableA town and municipality in Carabobo state, Venezuela.
   3. countableuncountableA municipality in Falcón state, Venezuela.
   4. countableuncountableA municipality in Mérida state, Venezuela.

1. governmentA Miranda warning.

present singular third person Mirandas · participle present Mirandaing · participle past Mirandaed · past Mirandaed

1. transitiveTo read (somebody) their rights on arrest as set out in Miranda v. Arizona.

   Has the suspect been Mirandaed?