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Colleen

//kəˈlin// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English or Irish.

    "Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject."

Noun
  1. 1
    A girl. Ireland
  2. 2
    an Irish girl wordnet
  3. 3
    A young single woman. Ireland

    "Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Colleen can also be interpreted as a variant of Coleen, which was a product of marketing by the Hollywood film industry (to promote a new starlet in the 1920s).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Irish cailín.

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