A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.
Used in a Sentence
percy
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for percy.
Editorial note
It's (at best) between Percy Jackson and something else like Percy Jackson, only probably not as good.
Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of percy gathered in one view.
An English surname from Old French.
A place name:
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for percy.
noun
A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.
noun
An English surname from Old French.
noun
A place name:
noun
A commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Example sentences
It's (at best) between Percy Jackson and something else like Percy Jackson, only probably not as good.
And for 99% of the kids, the choice isn't between Percy Jackson and D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths.
Otherwise why would Percy Spencer have been carrying it there, and why would he have been surprised when it melted?
The characters of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are normal in their fictional worlds.
And nobody cares whether body heat or Arizona typically melt candy bars (they do) since it's totally irrelevant to the Percy Spencer story.
The Percy Jackson books I'm reading now are radically better than the Hardy Boys books I read back in the 70s.
I have read nearly all of the Percy Jackson series and I find them enjoyable.
Jessica Dillion has actually helped me with Percy a bit.
Greek mythology seems to have peaked outside the Marvel universe; the endless Percy Jackson trilogy stream is still coming out, but everybody is tired of it.
The original drawings for the type, by Percy Tiffin, are more like sketches or visuals – guidelines to give the punchcutter a direction rather than precise instructions.
I actually read the entire Percy Jackson series recently.
– Percy Shelley if you’re going to try, go all the way.
Quote examples
If Percy Schmeiser wasn't aware that he was "pirating" Monsanto crops, spraying his field with roundup would have killed his crop.
Reminds me of that old headline, "Percy Spencer finds a way to melt a candy bar in his pocket." Seriously, people, this discovery is not really about being able to unboil eggs.
The puzzles use a subset of the 30 cubes devised by Percy Alexander MacMahon, but it is not known if the puzzle creators knew of MacMahon's cubes." I have a puzzle that does indeed have 12 different possible shapes and fits together in a rectangle.
Proper noun examples
Percy is a tool that integrates with Github to set build status on Github pull requests.
Fair enough, but I think that's a limitation of Github rather than a problem imposed by Percy.
Percy Schmeiser, the farmer in question, used it to launch a political career.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use percy in a sentence?
It's (at best) between Percy Jackson and something else like Percy Jackson, only probably not as good.
What does percy mean?
A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.
What part of speech is percy?
percy is commonly used as noun.