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- 1 A unisex given name.; A male given name transferred from the surname.
"The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment."
- 2 A surname from Korean.
"Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. […] “My husband and I thought it was such an honour for our shop to appear in Parasite,” its 72-year-old owner, Kim Kyung-soon, says."
- 3 An Mbum language of southern Chad.
- 4 A unisex given name.; A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
"Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born."
- 1 Alternative form of gim (“edible seaweed”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Etymology
Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.
From Korean 김(金) (Gim).
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