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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes. Compare Betsy, Patsy.
Proper noun
Nancy (plural Nancys)
- 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
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Nancy
- A city in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, north-eastern France.
Translations
a city in northeastern France
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from English Nancy.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
- IPA(key): /ˈnansi/,
Proper noun
Nancy
- a female given name from English
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English Nancy.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nancy f
- 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
- 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
- a female given name
Derived terms
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English Nancy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnansi/,
- Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
Proper noun
Nancy (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)
- a female given name from English