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Kyle

//kaɪl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic. countable
  2. 2
    A unisex given name.; A male given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable

    "Wally Szalla was the least discomforting of men, nothing like the pushy arrogant guys I was always meeting, or who were always meeting me. Guys with names like Dale, Brock, Kevin, Kyle. Guys with names nothing like Wally."

  3. 3
    A unisex given name.; A female given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncommon, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename; A town in Saskatchewan, Canada. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename; A census-designated place in South Dakota, United States. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A placename; A city in Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an island and the mainland, or between two islands. Scotland

    "[T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, and kyle, / The sea-loch flanked by precipice walls, / With ever-lessening murmur crawls, / Till 'neath the Pass he lies subdued / By the o'er-aweing solitude; […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From several places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, derived from Gaelic caol (“narrows”).

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic caol (“narrow; thin; firth, narrows, strait, kyle; narrow part of something”) (genitive singular form caoil), from Old Irish coíl (“narrow, slender”), from Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”).

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