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Charlene

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ʃɑɹˈlin//

A female given name from the Germanic languages; most used in the U.S. in the 1940s.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from the Germanic languages; most used in the U.S. in the 1940s.

    "Be grateful for our blessings, Charlie." My name's really Charlene. Sounds like a southern romance, Fabio drooling over Charlene's heaving bosom. I'm no Charlene, even at fourteen.

Etymology

A feminine form of Charles coined in the nineteenth century. Compare Marlene, Helene and Magdalene for the suffix.

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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).