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Hester

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈhɛstɚ//

A female given name from Persian, of 17th century and later usage.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Persian, of 17th century and later usage.

    “Don’t worry, Milton”—an elderly, white-haired, russet-faced woman stands on her trailer’s step—“I’ll see this one.” [...] “I’m afraid paranoia pays. Come in. I'm Hester Van Zandt.”

Etymology

From the Latin form of Esther.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from German.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German hêster (“beech”).

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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).