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Cara

Cara proper noun: a female given name originating as a coinage.

Proper noun

Cara

  1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
    • 'Okay, Cara Burrows. Can I take a look in your bag?'
      'My bag? Why?' This is getting a bit ridiculous. And he pronounced my name wrong: Carrah. Didn't even try to say it the way he heard me say it.2017, Sophie Hannah, Did You See Melody?: The stunning page turner from the bestselling author of Haven't They Grown?, Hachette UK, →ISBN
  2. A surname.

Forms of Cara

alternative formKara

Origin of Cara

20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).

Phrases with Cara

Questions about Cara

What does Cara mean?
Cara means a female given name originating as a coinage.
What part of speech is Cara?
Cara is a proper noun.

Words near Cara in the dictionary

  1. car-stickers
  2. car-surf
  3. car-surfed
  4. car-surfing
  5. car-surfs
  6. Cara
  7. Cara Cara
  8. Cara Caras
  9. Cara Cathay
  10. Cara Sucia
  11. Cara-Cathay

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