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proper noun
- An ancient Roman family name, notably that of w:Julius Caesar, Gaius Iulius Caesar
- A title of Roman emperors.
- (figuratively) The government; society; earthly powers.
- Render therefore unto the things that are 's; and unto God the things that are God's.
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| Caitlin |
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proper noun
- (given name, female).
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| Caleb |
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proper noun
- A male given name
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| Calvin |
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proper noun
- a surname of French and Spanish origin, meaning a bald person
- w:John Calvin, John Calvin, French Protestant theologian
- (context, mostly, US) a male given name derived from the surname; used especially by nonconformist families
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| Camilla |
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proper noun
- A warrior Queen of the Volscians according to Virgil's Aeneid.
- (given name, female).
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| Candy |
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proper noun - A female given name.
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| Carina |
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proper noun
- (constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
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| Carl |
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noun See carl
- (defn, English)
proper noun
- (given name, male), a variant of Charles.
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| Carla |
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proper noun - (given name, female, from Germanic, ), feminine form of Carl.
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| Carlos |
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proper noun
- A male given name of Spanish or Portuguese origin. English equivalent: Charles.
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| Carlton |
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proper noun
- Any of several placenames in northern England
- An English habitational surname from any of these places
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| Carlyle |
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noun
- A last name; the most famous to bear it was wikipedia:Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle.
- A given name for mainly males.
- A city in Illinois.
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| Carol |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, from Latin, ); also associated by name-givers with the English noun carol
- (given name, male, )
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| Carrie |
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proper noun - A female given name, a pet form of Caroline
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| Carroll |
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proper noun
- An Irish surname derived from the Gaelic í� Cearbhaill
- w:Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll - pseudonym of British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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| carry |
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noun (carries)
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- Adjust your from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition.
verb (carries, carrying, carried)
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
- The corner drugstore doesn't his favorite brand of aspirin.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over, take over.
- I think I can carry Smith's work while she is out.
- (transitive) (arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
- Five and nine are fourteen; the one to the tens place.
- (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
- Always sufficient insurance to protect against a loss.
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind.
- (context, transitive, nautical) to capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding
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| Carson |
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proper noun
- An Irish and Scottish surname, possible a form of Curzon.
- (given name, male) (and very rarely a female name) transferred from the surname.
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| Carter |
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proper noun
- An English occupational surname for someone who was a carter.
- (given name, male) derived from the surname.
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| Cary |
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proper noun - A male given name, a variant of the Irish Carey
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| Casey |
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proper noun - (given name, male).
- (given name, female).
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| Cassandra |
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proper noun
- (Greek mythology) Daughter of King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam Priam of Troy and his queen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecuba Hecuba, who captured the eye of Apollo, Apollo and was granted the ability to see the future. However, she was destined to never be believed.
- (given name, female)
- Somebody who makes predictions which are never believed but turn out to be true.
- Somebody who makes predictions which are believed but turn out to be false. This "incorrect" meaning of the word is often used (in the UK at least) http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1676985,00.html.
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| Cassius |
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proper noun
- A male given name
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| Catherine |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, ).
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| Cathy |
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proper noun
- a female given name, diminutive of Catherine
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| Cecil |
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proper noun - A male given name.
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| Cecile |
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proper noun
- A female given name
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| Cecilia |
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proper noun
- Saint Cecilia, 3rd Century Roman Martyr; the patron saint of music. Her feast day is November 22nd.
- (given name, female, from Latin, )
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| Celeste |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) borrowed from French Céleste, ultimately Latin caelestis "heavenly".
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| Celia |
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proper noun - (given name, female, from Latin)
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| Chad |
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proper noun
- A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.
- (given name, male) from Old English Ceadda, a seventh century saint.
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| Charity |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) first used by Puritans, originally more popular than Faith and Hope but rarely used today because of the modern side meaning of charity as welfare work.
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| Charlene |
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proper noun
- (mostly Australia and U.S.) (given name, female); a feminine form of Charles coined in the twentieth century.
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| Charles |
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proper noun
- (given name, male)
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| Charlie |
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proper noun
- (given name, male, , ) A diminutive of the masculine given name Charles.
- (given name, female, , ) A diminutive female given name of Charlotte or Charlene.
- (uncountable) The letter C in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
- (uncountable) (slang) Cocaine.
- (British and Australian slang, often qualified with right and/or proper) A fool.
- You look a right in that clown outfit!
- Is your name Charlie? ... Well, you look like one.
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| Chelsea |
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proper noun
- A district on the northern bank of the river Thames in western London.
- A type of porcelain once manufactured there.
- Several cities (mostly in the US) named after it.
- (given name, female, ), derived from the London borough.
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| Cheryl |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) coined in the 1920s, possible a blend of Cherry and Beryl.
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| Chester |
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proper noun
- The county town of Cheshire, in northwest England.
- Any of a number of towns in the United States. (See W:Chester (disambiguation), Chester)
- A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A male given name.
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| Chloe |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, from Greek, )
- Name of a person mentioned in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 1:11).
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| Chris |
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proper noun (plural Chrises)
- (given name, male), diminutive of Christopher and, less commonly, of Christian.
- (given name, female, ), diminutive of Christina or of its variant forms.
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| Christian |
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noun
- (context, Christianity) A believer in Christianity.
- (context, Christianity) An individual who seeks to live his or her life according to the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ.
proper noun
- (given name, male) found in England since the twelfth century.
- (given name, female) of medieval usage, rare today.
adjective
- (context, not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.
- Kind, charitable.
- That's very of you.
- To non-Christians, this may be an offensive usage (similarly, see the offensive usage of Jew)
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| Christie |
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proper noun
- (given name, female), diminutive of Christine and its variant forms.
- (given name, male), a mostly Scottish and Irish diminutive of Christopher
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| Christine |
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proper noun
- (given name, female), from the French variant of Christina, popular in the twentieth century in the Anglo-Saxon world.
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| Christopher |
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proper noun
- (given name, male, from Greek, ).
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| Chuck |
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proper noun - (given name, male, , ) (uncountable) A diminutive of the male given name Charles.
- (countable) a Chuck Taylor shoe (usually referred to in plural form, Chucks).
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| Claire |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) borrowed from the French form of Clara or Clare.
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| Clara |
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proper noun
- A female given name.
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| Claude |
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proper noun
- (given name, male).
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| Claudia |
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proper noun - (given name, female, from Latin, ), Latin feminine form of Claudius.
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| clay |
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noun
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (idiom) (Biblical) The material of the human body.
- 1611. Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- : Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the .
- 1611. Old Testament, King James Version, Isaiah 64:8:
- : But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the , and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
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| Clem |
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proper noun
- A male given name, diminutive of Clement
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| Clement |
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proper noun
- a male given name, derived from the Latin clemens meaning merciful
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| clementine |
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noun
- A cross between a tangerine and Seville orange.
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| Cleopatra |
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proper noun
- queen, Queen w:Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69 BC - 30 BC); last of the Ptolemy family.
- A given name of women in the Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt.
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| Cleveland |
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proper noun
- A city in Ohio.
- A former county in northeast England bordering Yorkshire and County Durham.
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| Cliff |
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proper noun - A diminutive of the male given name Clifford.
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| Clifford |
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proper noun
- (given name, male).
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| Clifton |
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proper noun
- Any of several places in England, especially a suburb of Bristol, England
- An English habitational surname for someone who lived in a town of this name.
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| Clint |
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proper noun
- A male given name
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| Clinton |
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proper noun
- An Irish surname, the short form of McClinton?
- An English habitational surname from either of several places named "Glinton" or "Glympton"
- w:Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton US President
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| Clio |
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proper noun
- (Greek mythology) The Muse of history and heroic poetry.
- a female given name
- A model of car by manufacturer Renault.
- Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.
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| Clive |
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proper noun
- An English surname - someone who lived near a cliff ( Old English clif).
- (given name, male) derived from the surname, popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.
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| Clyde |
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proper noun
- (rivers) A river in Scotland that flows through Glasgow into the Firth of Clyde.
- (mostly U.S:) (given name, male) from the river name.
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| Cole |
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proper noun - An English surname, possibly a nickname from col, Old English "charcoal,coal-black".
- A male given name derived from the surname.
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| Colin |
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proper noun (plural=Colins)
- (given name, male)
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| Colleen |
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proper noun
- (given name, female), a twentieth century American invention based on an Irish word but not used in Ireland.
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| columbine |
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noun
- Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
adjective
- (archaic) pertaining to a dove or pigeon
- Late C14: Com forí¾ now, wií¾ í¾yne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been í¾y brestes í¾an is wyn! " Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale
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| Connie |
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proper noun
- (given name, female), diminutive of Constance or , rarely, of Concepción.
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| Conrad |
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proper noun
- (given name, male).
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| Constance |
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proper noun - (given name, female, from Latin, ); a medieval form of the Latin Constantia from a word meaning constancy
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| Conway |
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proper noun
- Former English name of Conwy in North Wales
- A Welsh habitational surname derived from the city or its river
- A male given name transferred from the surname
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| Coral |
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proper noun - A female given name.
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| Cornelius |
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proper noun
- (biblical) A centurion mentioned in Acts 10:1.
- (given name, male)
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| Craig |
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proper noun
- a Scottish surname, originally meaning someone who lived near a crag
- a male given name derived from the surname
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| Crystal |
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proper noun
- (given name, female).
- (slang) The drug Crystal Meth (methamphetamine hydrochloride)
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| Curt |
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proper noun - A short form of the male given name Curtis
- An anglicized spelling of Kurt
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| Curtis |
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proper noun
- An English surname, originally a nickname for a refined or courtly person
- A male given name transferred from the surname
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| Cynthia |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, from Greek, )
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| Cyril |
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proper noun - A male given name.
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| Cyrus |
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proper noun
- Ancient king of Persia, also mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. 36:22, etc).
- (given name, male, from Persian, ).
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