evelyn
/ˈɛvəlɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.60 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A female given name from the Germanic languages.
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A surname originating as a matronymic.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Example Sentences
- "Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour."
- ""I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye."
- "Evelyn Waugh"
Etymology
From Middle English forms of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin avēre, "to wish for") or aval “strength”. By folk etymology also misunderstood as a diminutive of the feminine given name Eve, q.v. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.
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