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Carmen

//ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Spanish

    "Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen, but who danced like a Carmen, with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays[...]"

  2. 2
    A male given name from Italian. dated, rare
  3. 3
    A surname.
  4. 4
    A town in Oklahoma.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Idaho.
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of carman form-of, plural

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet.

Etymology 2

From Italian Carmine.

Etymology 3

* From Spanish Carmen. * A variant of Carman.

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