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Miranda

(mə ran′də)

noun

a feminine name: dim. Mandy

Origin: L, fem. of mirandus, strange, wonderful < mirari: see miracle

adjective

designating or of the legal rights of an arrested person (as that of remaining silent or of being represented by counsel) and the required notification of such a person of those rights

Origin: after the surname of the defendant in a 1966 Supreme Court case

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noun

A satellite of Uranus.

Origin:

Origin: After Miranda, daughter of the magician Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

adjective

Of or relating to a warning given by police to a criminal suspect advising of the constitutional right against self-incrimination and of the right to have a lawyer present during any interrogation.

Origin:

Origin: After Ernesto A. Miranda(1940?-1976), petitioner in the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

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