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Wilhelmina

/ˌwɪl.əˈmiːn.ə/

Wilhelmina proper noun: a female given name from German, masculine equivalent Wilhelm.

Proper noun

Wilhelmina

  1. A female given name from German, masculine equivalent Wilhelm.
    • She comforted herself however, on the first appearance of her pregnancy, that so odious a surname should be qualified in her children with the genteelest and most elegant Christian names that history or romance could supply. - - - My eldest sister, who came into the world a year after, was called...1776 Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756
    • ‘Wilhelmina’—I knew then that he was in deadly earnest, for he has never called me by that name since he asked me to marry him—‘you know, dear, my ideas of the trust between husband and wife: there should be no secret, no concealment.[…]’1897, Bram Stoker, “Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 115

Origin of Wilhelmina

Borrowed from German Wilhelmina, equivalent to Wilhelm + -ina.

Words formed from Wilhelmina

Questions about Wilhelmina

What does Wilhelmina mean?
Wilhelmina means a female given name from German, masculine equivalent Wilhelm.
What part of speech is Wilhelmina?
Wilhelmina is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Wilhelmina?
Wilhelmina is pronounced /ˌwɪl.əˈmiːn.ə/.

Words near Wilhelmina in the dictionary

  1. Wilhelm
  2. Wilhelm scream
  3. Wilhelm screams
  4. Wilhelmi
  5. Wilhelmian
  6. Wilhelmina
  7. Wilhelmina Bay
  8. Wilhelmine
  9. Wilhelminism
  10. Wilhelmis
  11. wilhelmkleinite

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