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Colleen

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəˈliːn//
  • United Kingdom//kɒˈliːn//
  • United States//kəˈlin//
  • United States//kɔˈlin//
  • United States//kɑˈlin//

A female given name from English or Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from English or Irish.

    Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.

Etymology

From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Colleen can also be interpreted as a variant of Coleen, which was a product of marketing by the Hollywood film industry (to promote a new starlet in the 1920s).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).