Gwen

Proper noun

Gwen (plural Gwens)

1. A female given name from Welsh.
   • Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.
   • The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to...2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
   1. A diminutive of the female given names Gwendolen and Guinevere