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Janice

/ˈd͡ʒænɪs/

Janice proper noun: a female given name.

Proper noun (1)

Janice

  1. A female given name.
    • "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?"
      "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.1899, Paul Leicester Ford, chapter I, in Janice Meredith
    • "Now class," she said, "my name is Mrs. Chubbie. I know how most of you would like to pronounce it, but the correct pronunciation is Mrs. Shew-bay."
      "It's Jan-eece," the goth-girl says.
      "Pardon me?" Mrs Shew-bay asks very properly.
      "My name is pronounced Jan-eece. Not Janice." The whole class tries...1999, Peter McPhee, Runner, →ISBN, pages 37–8

Proper noun (2)

Janice (plural Janices)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Janice

alternative formJan
alternative formJanis
alternative formJanyce
pluralJanices

Origin of Janice

Variant of Jane under apparent influence from Alice, Bernice, Eunice, etc., from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.

Possibly an altered spelling of Jannis; see Janes.

Words that rhyme with Janice

Questions about Janice

What does Janice mean?
Janice means a female given name.
What part of speech is Janice?
Janice is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Janice?
Janice is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/.

Words near Janice in the dictionary

  1. jangseung
  2. janhaugite
  3. Janiak
  4. Janiaks
  5. Janian
  6. Janice
  7. Janicek
  8. Janiceks
  9. janiceps
  10. Janices
  11. Janicki

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