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Definition of 'Lynn'English
Alternative forms
* (female name) Lyn, Lynne
Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
Any of several place names (outside Britain named for persons with the surname).
# A town in Alabama.
# A town in Arkansas.
# A town in Indiana.
# A city in Massachusetts.
# An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
# A town in Wisconsin.
# A community in Nova Scotia.
usually appearing as a middle name.
, popular as a middle name.
Quotations
* 1595 ( William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, Scene V
*: King Edward . But whither shall we then?
*: Hastings . To Lynn , my lord; and ship from thence to Flanders.
* 1989 ( Ann Richards), Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671680730, page 91
*: David's father's name was Leon, and those people who didn't call him Dick called him Lynn'. And I loved my former professor Ralph '''Lynn''', so I named my baby ' Lynn Cecile.
* 2007 Susan Richards Shreve, ''Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 061865853X, page 67
*: He called me Mary because I had told him my middle name was Mary and I was called by that name at home, although my middle name was Lynn'. But neither Susan or ' Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism.
English diminutives of female given names
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