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Celia

Celia proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun (1)

Celia

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • Rosalind: But what will you be called?
      Celia: Something that hath a reference to my state:
      No longer Celia, but Aliena.Act I: Scene III
    • The British author Celia Dodd, who recently updated her 2011 book, “The Empty Nest: How to Survive and Stay Close to Your Adult Child,” told me that dads often seem to be coping fine with the transition but might be struggling the most.2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN

Proper noun (2)

Celia (plural Celias)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Celia meaning in Tamil

Celia in Tamil

இழையொத்த, மயிரிழை போன்ற

Forms of Celia

pluralCelias

Origin of Celia

Borrowed from Latin Caelia, feminine of Roman family name Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven”). Introduced into English by William Shakespeare in As You Like It.

Borrowed from Italian Celia.

Words that rhyme with Celia

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Questions about Celia

What does Celia mean?
Celia means a female given name from Latin.
What is Celia in Tamil?
Celia in Tamil is இழையொத்த, மயிரிழை போன்ற. See Celia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Celia?
Celia is a proper noun.

Words near Celia in the dictionary

  1. celestrol
  2. celetoid
  3. celetoids
  4. celgosivir
  5. Celi
  6. Celia
  7. celiac
  8. celiac arteries
  9. celiac artery
  10. celiac disease
  11. celiac plexus

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Celia (page history and authors); celia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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