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Gwen

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ɡwɛn//

A female given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name.

    Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.

    The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.

Etymology

A female given name from Welsh, shortened from Gwendolen or Guinevere. Doublet of Wendy.

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).