Chloe
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.
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Proper noun[edit]
Chloe
- A female given name from Ancient Greek
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:11::
- For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:
- Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.
- 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:
- Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.
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Translations[edit]
female given name
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Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English Chloe, from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”).
Proper noun[edit]
Chloe
- a female given name from Ancient Greek
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.
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