Marions

Proper noun

Marion (countable and uncountable, plural Marions)

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • The name of the captain of the sloop was Captain Maryon, and therefore it was no news to hear from Mrs. Belltott, that his sister, the beautiful young unmarried English lady, was Miss Maryon. The novelty was, that her Christian name was Marion too. Marion Maryon. Many a time I have run off those...1857, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
2. A surname originating as a matronymic.
3. (US) A male given name transferred from the surname, or by folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Mary.
   • "I spose you want to be a cattleboy," drawled the multicolored beard whose name was Carrol Day, a curiously feminine name, thought Martin, not yet acquaintanced with the bearded Marions, Fannys and Abbys of Texas who, saddled by their unthinking mothers with dainty names, built savagely masculine...2002, Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, →ISBN, page 81
4. A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, from the given name Marianne.
5. A local government area in South Australia, which includes the suburb; in full, the City of Marion.
6. An ancient city on the island of Cyprus.

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