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Elise

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • Scotland//əˈlis//
  • //ˈiːliːs//
  • //ɛliːs//

A female given name from Hebrew.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Hebrew.

    "Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."

Etymology

From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.

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).