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Cara

proper nounattested in dialogue

A female given name originating as a coinage.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name originating as a coinage.

    'Okay, Cara Burrows. Can I take a look in your bag?' 'My bag? Why?' This is getting a bit ridiculous. And he pronounced my name wrong: Carrah. Didn't even try to say it the way he heard me say it.

  2. 2

    A surname.

Etymology

20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).

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

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).