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Jose

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//həʊˈzeɪ//
  • United States//hoʊˈzeɪ//
  • //ˈdʒəʊz//
  • //ˈdʒoːs//

A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Joseph, an anglicized spelling of Spanish José and Portuguese José.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Joseph, an anglicized spelling of Spanish José and Portuguese José.

    Some Rizaliana collectors deem the blue 1959 Jose Rizal Definitive to be the most attractive Rizal stamp.

  2. 2

    A surname transferred from the given name, derived from the given name.

Etymology

From Spanish/Portuguese José, from Hebrew. Doublet of Joseph.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.

Etymology

Originally as a diminutive form of Josephine, later also appearing as a given name.

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).