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Lo·gan

 (lō′gən)
A city of northern Utah north of Salt Lake City on the Bear River. Settled by Mormons in the 1850s, it is the seat of Utah State University (founded 1888).
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logan

(ˈləʊɡən) or

logan-stone

n
other names for rocking stone
[C18: from logging-stone, from dialect log to rock]

logan

(ˈləʊɡən)
n
(Physical Geography) Canadian another name for bogan1

Logan

(ˈləʊɡən)
n
(Placename) Mount Logan a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
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Lo•gan

(ˈloʊ gən)

n.
Mount, a mountain in NW Canada, in the St. Elias Mountains: second highest peak in North America. 19,850 ft. (6050 m).
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Logan - a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high)Logan - a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high)
Yukon Territory, Yukon - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range - a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory
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And Bert found his kitten and carried it back to Logan's store and handed it with earnest admonition to Mrs.
"Logan," said Laurier, disregarding that feeble inqniry, "you must help us in this."
"But where IS the President?" Bert repeated as they stood behind Logan while he pumped up a deflated tyre.
Logan's fort was besieged by a party of about two hundred Indians.
Logan, hastening to join us, with a number of well armed men: This powerful assistance we unfortunately wanted in the battle; for, notwithstanding the enemy's superiority of numbers, they acknowledged that, if they had received one more fire from us, they should undoubtedly have given way.
And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
Get the fees from Tim Logan. He's tending bar in the Sourdough, and he'll lend it to me.
The idea of this contrast was taken from the ingenious and unfortunate Logan's tragedy of Runnamede, in which, about the same period of history, the author had seen the Saxon and Norman barons opposed to each other on different sides of the stage.
Warren Logan, who now for seventeen years has been the treasurer of the Institute, and the acting principal during my absence.
Logan Edwards has been nominated for the Child of Courage Award by his mum Emma Kirby and his grandmother Rebecca Kirby, who are both very proud of Logan's achievements since surgery.
Logan Maclean's family were concerned when he started hobbling on his right leg but say doctors diagnosed a sprained ankle.