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Gabrielle

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ɡæbɹiːˈɛl//

A female given name from French.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from French.

    Her granddaughter, Gabrielle Kamentz, remembered her grandmother for all she taught her. “My grandmother taught me everything I needed to know in life… so happy and proud to be following in her footsteps as a nurse,” Kamentz said in a Facebook post.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Gabrielle, feminine form of Gabriel (see there for more).

proper noun

  1. 1

    a nickname for Dysnomia (the moon of the dwarf planet Eris, itself nicknamed Xena)

Etymology

The main supporting character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001) was the inspiration for the dwarf planet's moon's nickname, due to the dwarf planet itself being nicknamed Xena.

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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).