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Imogen

/ˈɪməd͡ʒɪn/

Imogen proper noun: a female given name from the Celtic languages.

Proper noun

Imogen (plural Imogens)

  1. (UK) A female given name from the Celtic languages.
    • Ile write to my lord ſhe's dead: O Imogen! / Safe mayſt thou wander, ſafe returne agen.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • She would have to change her own name as well, she'd never liked Tracy. Imogen or Isabel, something feminine and romantic. She supposed she didn't look like an Imogen. Imogens were middle-class Home Counties girls with long blonde hair and vaguely Bohemian mothers.2010, Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 83–84

Forms of Imogen

pluralImogens
alternative formImogene

Origin of Imogen

First used by William Shakespeare in Cymbeline, a misprint for Innogen, from Scottish Gaelic inghean (“girl, maiden”)

Questions about Imogen

What does Imogen mean?
Imogen means a female given name from the Celtic languages.
What part of speech is Imogen?
Imogen is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Imogen?
Imogen is pronounced /ˈɪməd͡ʒɪn/.

Words near Imogen in the dictionary

  1. IMNAAHO
  2. IMNSFHO
  3. IMNSHO
  4. imo
  5. Imochagh
  6. Imogen
  7. Imogene
  8. Imogens
  9. Imogine
  10. imogolite
  11. imogolites

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