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carmen

/ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/

carmen is the plural of carman.

Meaning of carman

Noun

carman (plural carmen)

  1. (obsolete) A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.
    • Nine main depots and a number of sub-depots are involved and the carmen, after leaving their depots, were entirely under a controller's instructions.1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 337

See all 4 meanings of carman

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Carmen

Carmen

  1. A female given name from Spanish
    • 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[...]1914, Keith Clark, The Spell of Spain, The Page Company, published 1914, page 223
    • "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...1988, Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Arbor House, published 1989, →ISBN, page 145
  2. A town in Oklahoma.
  3. An unincorporated community in Idaho.
  4. Synonym of Rosales: a municipality of Pangasinan, Philippines.
    Synonyms:
    Rosales

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Carmen

Carmen

  1. (dated, rare) A male given name from Italian.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Carmen

Carmen

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of carmen

Origin of carmen

From Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet.

Borrowed from Italian Carmine.

* From Spanish Carmen. * A variant of Carman.

Words formed from carmen

Phrases with carmen

Words that rhyme with carmen

Questions about carmen

What does carmen mean?
Carmen means a female given name from Spanish.
What is carmen the plural of?
Carmen is the plural of carman.
What part of speech is carmen?
Carmen is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce carmen?
Carmen is pronounced /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/.

Words near carmen in the dictionary

  1. carmelizes
  2. carmelizing
  3. carmellose
  4. carmels
  5. carmeltazite
  6. carmen
  7. Carmen de Patagones
  8. carmen figuratum
  9. Carmenate
  10. Carmenates
  11. Carmencita

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carmen (page history and authors); Carmen (page history and authors); carman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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