Skip to content
OneKitly

Lise

proper nounattested in dialogue

A female given name from French.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from French.

    The urge to tell Lise everything was almost overpowering.

    Then I smelled something funny. “Do you guys smell that?” “No. What do you smell?” said Lise. “I think I smell smoke.”

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Lisa.

    Lisa said, “This is gonna be the best birthday breakfast Mom ever had.” And Bart earnestly replied, “Hey, Lise, you think that's enough for her?”

Etymology

From the French, and possible also from Scandinavian, Lise. Variant of more common English Lisa.

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).