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Katie

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈkeɪti//

A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.

    There is one Emily, one Charlotte, no Catherine, but two Kates, and innumerable Katies, which seems to be the latest form that Catherine has taken—Catherine, Kate, Katie.

    And "Mable"'s a name that ever sounds sweetly / And charms and enchants a mortal completely / While "Katie" suggests brown eyes and brown tresses / Created for love and lover's caresses.

    The pixels’ use in a taxpayer context resulted in the “reckless” sharing of legally protected data that could put taxpayers at risk, according to the report by Warren and her Democratic colleagues Sens. Ron Wyden; Richard Blumenthal; Tammy Duckworth; and Sheldon Whitehouse; Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats; and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter.

  2. 2

    slangA king and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity with "K-T"

  3. 3

    Variant of KatyAlternative spelling of Katy (“the Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad”).

Forms

plural
Katies
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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).