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Lula

Lula proper noun: a female given name. Also the ellipsis of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Proper noun

Lula

  1. A female given name.
    • But Lula Ann Bridewell is no longer available and she was never a woman. Lula Ann was a sixteen-year-old-me who dropped that dumb countrified name as soon as I left high school. I was Ann Bride for two years until I interviewed for a sales job at Sylvia, Inc., and, on a hunch, shortened my name to...2015, Toni Morrison, God Help the Child, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 11

Also used as

Lula is also the ellipsis of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Origin of Lula

19th-century variant of Lulu, nickname of Louisa and Lucy. In rare cases, shortened from Tallulah.

Words formed from Lula

Questions about Lula

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

Words near Lula in the dictionary

  1. Luksuhin Ibaba
  2. Luksuhin Ilaya
  3. lukuchuko
  4. Lukácsian
  5. lul
  6. Lula
  7. lulab
  8. lulabs
  9. LULAC
  10. Lulanga
  11. lulav

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