Kim
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɪm/
- A male given name.
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1
- A female given name.
- 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.
- 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.
- 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- Portuguese: Kim
- Russian: Ким
- Russian: Ким
- Surname, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (^김, hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.
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