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Diane

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//daɪˈæn//

A female given name from Latin, popular in the middle of the 20th century

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Latin, popular in the middle of the 20th century

    Oddly enough, there was a woman involved. I remember nothing about her except her name: Diane. It was an improbable name in connection with Bertie, particularly in the wilds of Kent. However, Diane was there.

    Firefighters from multiple fire departments responded to the fire at Edisto Beach in Colleton County on Saturday afternoon. The house is owned by Judge Diane Goodstein and her husband, former state Sen. Arnold Goodstein.

Etymology

An anglicization of French Diane, from Latin Diāna. Doublet of Diana

Forms

plural
Dianes
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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).