Deborah

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English

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Etymology

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From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.

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Proper noun

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Deborah (plural Deborahs)

  1. (biblical) A judge of Israel.
  2. (biblical) A nurse of Rebecca.
  3. A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
    • 1851, James Brayshay, The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose, Groombridge and Sons, act I:
      Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!
    • 1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256:
      He hadn't known, for example, that her middle name was Deborah. It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding. He was willing to bet that if you went through every women's prison in America, you wouldn't find a half-dozen Deborahs.
    • 1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:
      Your name is Deborah, Deborah / It never suited ya
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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: De‧bo‧rah

Noun

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Deborah

  1. a female given name
  2. (biblical) Deborah