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Clarinda

/kləˈɹɪn.də/

Clarinda proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Clarinda

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • Her nearest handmayd, whom she most did trust, / And to her said: Clarinda, whom of all / I trust a live, sith I thee fostred first; […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29
  2. A city, the county seat of Page County, Iowa, United States.
  3. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia

Origin of Clarinda

From Clara + -inda.

Words that rhyme with Clarinda

Questions about Clarinda

What does Clarinda mean?
Clarinda means a female given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Clarinda?
Clarinda is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Clarinda?
Clarinda is pronounced /kləˈɹɪn.də/.

Words near Clarinda in the dictionary

  1. clarifyings
  2. clarigation
  3. clariid
  4. clariids
  5. Clarin
  6. Clarinda
  7. clarinet
  8. clarinetist
  9. clarinetists
  10. clarinets
  11. clarinettist

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