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Linda

/ˈlɪndə/

Linda proper noun: a female given name from the Germanic languages.

Proper noun (1)

Linda

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • The Orange-Tree stood in a Wood which belong'd to a Princess, who liv'd in a magnificent Palace not far off, and us'd to walk there. This Princess was young, beautiful and witty, and her Name Linda.1752, Countess D'Aulnoi, Thomas Parnell, The Court of Queen Mab. Tales of Fairies, London: M.Cooper, MDCCLII, page 328
    • When I go to sleep / I never count sheep / I count all the charms about Linda.1946 Jack Lawrence: Linda ( a popular song )
  2. A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
  3. A coordination language for parallel computing environments.
    • The aim of this paper is to analyse the concept of extending the parallel logic programming paradigm with Linda-like operations, thus facilitating distributed data storage, access and management.2012, Evan Tick, Giancarlo Succi, editors, Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43

Proper noun (2)

Linda (plural Lindas)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of Linda

alternative formLynda
pluralLindas

Origin of Linda

Latinised short form of Germanic compound names ending in -lind, -linde (“tender, soft”) (English -inda), such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde, and earlier names such as Old High German Irmilinda and Old Dutch Frithelind, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz (“gentle, mild”), whence also Old English līþe (“gentle, mild, pliable, limber”) (English lithe). Later misassociated with unrelated Spanish linda (“beautiful”). The name became known through 19th century literature and the opera Linda di Chamounix (1842). More at lithe. The coordination language is named after Linda Lovelace, a reference to the programming language Ada, itself named after Ada Lovelace.

Variant of Linde.

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Questions about Linda

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

Words near Linda in the dictionary

  1. lincture
  2. linctures
  3. linctus
  4. linctuses
  5. lind
  6. Linda
  7. Linda Vista
  8. lindackerite
  9. Lindahl
  10. Lindahls
  11. Lindal

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