Cynthia

Definitions

1. Artemis (Greek goddess).
2. The Moon.
   literary
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Equivalents

9 more languages

العربيةسينثيا

Azərbaycan diliSintiya

ΕλληνικάΚυνθία

ItalianoCinzia

日本語シンシア

한국어신시아

LatinaCynthia

LatviešuSintija

РусскийСинтия

Examples

“As when faire Cynthia, in darkesome night, / Is in a noyous cloud enveloped [...].”

“[...] Cynthia's shining orb was made / Heav'n to clear when day did close⟳ [...].”

““Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name⟳, only fit for poetry, not for daily use⟳.””

“Cynthia, the domestic-minded, looked as dashing as a young commando. It was a pity that her spelling was so bad, but perhaps there was something Elizabethan about her spelling as well as about her name⟳.”

“Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen⟳ from the moment she named them.”

“This hierarchisation of deaths has been challenged by gender scholars, with Cynthia Enloe coining the notion of “womenandchildren” in her 1990 text "Bananas, Beaches and Bases" to critique the use⟳ of this abstract category.”

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