Meaning of Carmen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name from Spanish
2. A male given name from Italian.
   dated, rare
3. A surname.
4. A town in Oklahoma.
5. An unincorporated community in Idaho.

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Examples

“Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen, but who danced like a Carmen, with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays[...]”

“"But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera." "Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it." "She didn't. She named me after Guy Lombardo's brother, Carmen Lombardo, he sang with the band.”

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