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Shanequa

Shanequa proper noun: a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.

Proper noun

Shanequa

  1. A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
    • Despite the laundry list of media, a throughline extends across Shanequa Gay’s Gateway to the South, namely genre scenes depicting Black people in varying levels of abstraction.2024 April 28, Leia Genis, “Shanequa Gay Completes a Work Begun a Century Ago”, in Hyperallergic, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2025

Questions about Shanequa

What does Shanequa mean?
Shanequa means a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
What part of speech is Shanequa?
Shanequa is a proper noun.

Words near Shanequa in the dictionary

  1. Shaneequa
  2. Shaneiqua
  3. Shanekqua
  4. Shanekwa
  5. Shanelle
  6. Shanequa
  7. Shaner
  8. Shaners
  9. Shanes
  10. Shanes Park
  11. Shaneyfelt

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