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Claire

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈklɛə//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈkʰl̥ɛə]/
  • Australia//ˈkleː//
  • Australia/[ˈkʰl̥eː]/
  • //ˈkle̝ə//

A female given name from French.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from French.

    A woman named Claire should be able to describe the moon. Clair de Lune was of course one of Claire's favourite pieces of piano music.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Clare.

    When we arrived in Hangchow, all the pilots were honored at a big banquet given by that famous American general with a lady's name, Claire Chennault.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Claire, also a spelling variant of the English Clare.

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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).