Nancy

See also: nancy

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnænsi/
  • Rhymes: -ænsi

Etymology 1

Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes. Compare Betsy, Patsy.

Proper noun

Nancy (plural Nancys)

  1. A female given name.
    • 1792, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss:
      I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
      Naething could resist my Nancy:
      But to see her was to love her;
      Love but her, and love forever.
    • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 7, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
      "And they've got lovely names, too. You'll like their names," sighed Nancy. "They're 'Algernon' and 'Florabelle' and 'Estelle'. I - I just hate Nancy!" "Oh, Nancy, what a dreadful thing to say! Why?" "Because it isn't pretty like the others. You see, I was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter read so many stories with the pretty names in them, then."
Derived terms
Translations

Proper noun

Nancy

  1. A city in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, north-eastern France.
Translations

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
  • IPA(key): /ˈnansi/, [ˈn̪an̪.s̪ɪ]

Proper noun

Nancy

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nan.si/

Proper noun

Nancy f

  1. a female given name from English

Etymology 2

From the medieval name, Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɑ̃.si/

Proper noun

Nancy m

  1. Nancy (a city, the prefecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, France)
Derived terms

Norman

Etymology

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Proper noun

Nancy f

  1. a female given name

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈnansi/ [ˈnan.sɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ansi
  • Syllabification: Nan‧cy

Proper noun

Nancy (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. a female given name from English
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