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Vivien

Vivien proper noun: a female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.

Proper noun

Vivien

  1. A female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
    • "This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - - -1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Piccino and Other Child Stories, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 161
    • He didn't like her first name. '"Vivian" - it's neither one thing nor the other. It'll confuse people. They won't know if you're a man or a woman. Will you agree to spelling it "Vivien"?'1987, Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 54

Questions about Vivien

What does Vivien mean?
Vivien means a female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
What part of speech is Vivien?
Vivien is a proper noun.

Words near Vivien in the dictionary

  1. vividity
  2. vividly
  3. vividness
  4. vividnesses
  5. vivids
  6. Vivien
  7. Vivienne
  8. Vivier
  9. Viviers
  10. vivific
  11. vivificate

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