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Estella

Estella proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Estella

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order. But she answered at last, and her light came along the dark...1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VIII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 124
  2. A suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Origin of Estella

Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.

Questions about Estella

What does Estella mean?
Estella means a female given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Estella?
Estella is a proper noun.

Words near Estella in the dictionary

  1. esteemeth
  2. esteeming
  3. esteems
  4. Estelada
  5. Estell
  6. Estella
  7. Estelle
  8. Estelnic
  9. Estelí
  10. estemmenosuchid
  11. estemmenosuchids

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