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Agatha

[ag-uh-thuh] Origin

Ag·a·tha

[ag-uh-thuh]
noun
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “good.”
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Agatha
fem. proper name, from L., from Gk. Agathe, fem. of agathos "good," of unknown origin. Never a popular name in U.S., and all but unused there since 1940. Agathism is the doctrine that all things tend toward the good.
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