Kim

Definitions

1. A unisex given name.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A surname from Korean.
4. An Mbum language of southern Chad.
5. A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.

Equivalents

Examples

“The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep⟳ a second-hand furniture shop⟳ by the square where the cheap cabs wait⟳) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.”

“Bizarre as was the name⟳ she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name⟳ is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.”

“It will take⟳ some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.”

“The use⟳ of “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has Survivor’s Jim Peterik “risin’ up to the challenge⟳” – and threatening action.”

“Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end⟳ of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have⟳ nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. […] “My husband and I thought it was such an honour for our shop⟳ to appear⟳ in Parasite,” its 72-year-old owner, Kim Kyung-soon, says.”

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