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Joaquin

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //wɑˈkiːn//
  • //hwɑˈkiːn//

A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Joaquín.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Joaquín.

    Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Joaquín.

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.

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