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coleen

coleen is the alternative form of colleen.

Meaning of colleen

Noun

colleen (plural colleens)

  1. (Ireland) A girl.
  2. (Ireland) A young single woman.
    • Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.c. 1900, “Star of the County Down (traditional folk song)”

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Proper noun capitalized: Coleen

Coleen

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Coline, from Nicoline.
    • Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.2007, Laurie Lindeen, Petal Pusher, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 137
  2. A mountain in Alaska.
  3. A river in Alaska.

Forms of coleen

pluralcoleens

Words formed from coleen

Questions about coleen

What does coleen mean?
Coleen means a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Coline, from Nicoline.
What is coleen the alternative form of?
Coleen is the alternative form of colleen.
What part of speech is coleen?
Coleen is a proper noun.

Words near coleen in the dictionary

  1. colectomy
  2. colecturer
  3. colecturers
  4. coled
  5. Coledale
  6. coleen
  7. coleens
  8. Coleford
  9. Colegate
  10. colegatee
  11. colegatees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coleen (page history and authors); Coleen (page history and authors); colleen (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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