Amanda

//əˈmændə// name

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  1. 1
    A female given name from Latin.

    "O there is a sweet era in the life of man, when ( the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than anything else ) - a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny - Amandus - He Amanda - She - each ignorant of the other's course."

  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A township in Allen County, Ohio.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Fairfield County, Ohio.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A township in Hancock County, Ohio.

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"Amanda and Jason have dark hair."

Etymology

Derived from Latin Amanda, feminine form of the saint's name Amandus, from amandus, future passive participle of amāre (“to love”): thus meaning "who/which is to be loved". Taken into regular use as an English given name from 18th-century literature. Doublet of Aimee.

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