Chloe
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkloʊ.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊi
Proper noun
Chloe
- A female given name from Ancient Greek
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:11::
- For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:
- Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.
- 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:
- Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.
Derived terms
Translations
female given name
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Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English Chloe, from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”).
Proper noun
Chloe
- a female given name from Ancient Greek
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Chloē.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Chloe f (indeclinable)
- (rare) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]
Further reading
- Chloe in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈklowi/ [ˈkloː.wɪ]
- Rhymes: -owi
- Syllabification: Chlo‧e
Proper noun
Chloe (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜓᜏᜒ)
- a female given name from English
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