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Debra

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdɛbɹə//

A female given name from Hebrew popular in the 1950s and the 1960s.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Hebrew popular in the 1950s and the 1960s.

    "She's Debra Jean," the children shouted in chorus. "We decided last night with Daddy." - - - So her name is Debbie, I thought to myself. With a pretty name and a family to love her this baby has to make it.

    In previous years Penryn Town Council has used Falmouth Town Council to fulfil the parks contract and glyphosate had been used, councillor Debra Clegg confirmed.

Etymology

A spelling variant of Deborah first used in the 20th century.

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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).