Nancy

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Nancy (plural Nancys or Nancies)

  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."
    • 2003, Ira Pohl, “Nested Classes”, in C# by Dissection: The Essentials of C# Programming, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 249:
      There are many Nancies and Jerries in the world. They get told apart by a further name, such as Nancy Lovelace, or Jerry Turing.
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Etymology 2

From French Nancy, from Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

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Proper noun

Nancy

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
  • IPA(key): /ˈnansi/

Proper noun

Nancy

  1. a female given name from English

French

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Nancy m

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

Etymology

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Proper noun

Nancy f

  1. a female given name

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nancy (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. a female given name from English
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