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Katherine

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn//

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.

    SAVAGE (HENRY) - - - His aim was to appear great in little things, and the gravity with which he discusses the origin, derivation, &c of the name Katherine, whether it should be spelt with a K or a C, at which time the letter k was introduced, and the double l in Balliol, is truly wonderful. - - - By his wife, Lady Mary Sandys, he left issue Henry, Edwin, John, Katherine, and Thomas

    The county’s top prosecutor, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, accused Artiles at a news conference on Thursday afternoon of paying an old friend almost $45,000 to mount a fake candidacy intended to illegally sway the election.

  2. 2

    A town and local government area (the Town of Katherine) in the Northern Territory, Australia.

  3. 3

    The Katherine Region (a region of the Northern Territory, Australia).

  4. 4

    A river in the Northern Territory, which gave its name to the town.

  5. 5

    An electoral division in the Northern Territory, Australia.

  6. 6

    A census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

Forms

diminutive
Kathy, Kath, Kate
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

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