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Angelina

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌænd͡ʒəˈliːnə//

A female given name from Ancient Greek, an Italian diminutive of Angela.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Ancient Greek, an Italian diminutive of Angela.

    What happened to Angelina Resendiz is a mystery, but her mother wants to get to the bottom of it.

  2. 2

    Variant of Angelina CountyEllipsis of Angelina County.

  3. 3

    Variant of Asteroid AngelinaEllipsis of Asteroid Angelina, 64 Angelina.

Etymology

From Italian Angelina. By surface analysis, Angela + -ina. Piecewise doublet of Angeline.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA young, inexperienced hobo (of either gender).

    He had a plug of tobacco fixed firmly in his left cheek and talked around it in fluent hobo slang. "You Angelinas lookin' to catch a blind?" he said as Violet and Myrtle stood on the platform in Penn Station[…]

    You'll like yourself better for it in the end, and when the next optimistic “Angelina” saunters in fresh from the rails looking for some work, he may benefit from your good conduct.

  2. 2

    rareA female denizen of Los Angeles. Alternative form of Angelena (“a female resident of Los Angeles”); feminine of Angelino (“a male resident of Los Angeles”); Synonym of Angelino/Angeleno (“a resident of Los Angeles of either gender”);

Forms

plural
Angelinas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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