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zoe

/ˈzəʊ//ˈzəʊ.i/

zoe noun: bare or universal life.

Noun

zoe (uncountable)

  1. Bare or universal life.

Proper noun capitalized: Zoe

Zoe

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
    • Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe, in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.1833, Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance, Key&Biddle, page 112
    • "Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe! You never did yourself." ¶ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.1921, Fannie Hurst, Stardust, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 20

zoe meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Kannada

zoe in Hindi

ज़ो

zoe in Marathi

झोए

zoe in Urdu

زو, زوئی, زوے

zoe in Kannada

ಝೊ
More languagesFewer languages
zoe in Punjabi
ਜ਼ੋ, ਜ਼ੋਏ
zoe in Gujarati
ઝો, ઝોએ

Origin of zoe

From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”), first distinguished in this particular sense by Giorgio Agamben.

Words that rhyme with zoe

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about zoe

What does zoe mean?
Zoe means bare or universal life.
What is zoe in Hindi?
Zoe in Hindi is ज़ो. See Zoe meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is zoe?
Zoe can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce zoe?
Zoe is pronounced /ˈzəʊ.i/ (UK).

Words near zoe in the dictionary

  1. zodiographer
  2. zodiographers
  3. zodiographs
  4. zodis
  5. zods
  6. zoe
  7. zoea
  8. zoeae
  9. zoeal
  10. zoeas
  11. Zoechrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zoe (page history and authors); Zoe (page history and authors); zoe (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zoe (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zoe (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zoe (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zoe (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zoe (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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