Colleen
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A girl. Ireland
- 2 an Irish girl wordnet
- 3 A young single woman. Ireland
"Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by."
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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).
Borrowed from Irish cailín.
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