Audrey
English
Etymology
From Old English Æðelþryð (from æþele (“noble”) + þryþ (“strength”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔːdɹi/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːdɹi
- Hyphenation: Au‧drey
Proper noun
Audrey
- A female given name from Old English.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- Touchstone. Come, sweet Audrey, / We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.
- 2004, Anne Frasier, Play dead, →ISBN:
- She hates her name. What was wrong with the name Audrey? It may not have been something Elise would choose now, but she'd been eighteen when her daughter was born, and the name had seemed pretty damn cool.
- (very rare) A male given name from Old English.
Related terms
- tawdry, derived from "Saint Audrey".
Translations
female given name
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.dʁɛ/, /o.dʁe/, /o.dʁi/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Audrey f
- a female given name from English, popular in the 1980s
- (very rare) a male given name from English
- (very rare) a unisex given name from English
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔodɾi/ [ˈʔod.ɾɪ]
- Rhymes: -odɾi
- Syllabification: Aud‧rey
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