Dorothy
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- A female given name.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- Pistol. Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you. / Doll Tearsheet. Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion.
- 1900 Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter 3:
- "My name is Dorothy," said the girl, " and I am going to the Emerald City to ask the Great Oz to send me back to Kansas."
- 1990 Russell Baker, There's a Country in My Cellar, Morrow, ISBN 0688095984, page 418:
- Don't you think the world has gone steadily downhill ever since parents stopped naming their children Lucy and Dorothy and started naming them Samantha?
- French: Dorothée
- German: Dorothea
- Italian: Dorotea
- Portuguese: Doroteia
- Russian: Дороте́я
- Spanish: Dorotea
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