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Stacey

Stacey proper noun: an English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.

Proper noun

Stacey

  1. An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
  2. A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred back from the surname.
  3. A female given name from Ancient Greek popular in the 1970s, from the surname, sometimes also explained as a short form of Anastasia.
    • It was just a brief kiss, one that even Bernadine would have thought entirely appropriate between an uncle and niece had she happened to see it. But its briefness wasn’t the whole story. In that scant second that his lips claimed hers, Stacey felt herself suffused with warmth as a most unniecely...1990, Candace Schuler, Wildcat, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 194
    • They call me Hel, they call me Stacey / They call me "her", they call me Jane2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings

Forms of Stacey

alternative formStacy
alternative formStaci
alternative formStacie

Words that rhyme with Stacey

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Questions about Stacey

What does Stacey mean?
Stacey means an English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
What part of speech is Stacey?
Stacey is a proper noun.

Words near Stacey in the dictionary

  1. staccatissimo
  2. staccato
  3. staccatos
  4. Stace
  5. Stacee
  6. Stacey
  7. Staceys Bridge
  8. Stach
  9. stache
  10. staches
  11. Stachnik

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