Marilyn
proper nounnouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈmæɹ.ɪ.lɪn//
- //ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.lɪn//
A female given name originating as a coinage.
proper noun
- 1
A female given name originating as a coinage.
Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name - Marilyn. You won't believe it, but she was named for me, and my own is Maryam. She tells me that Marilyn is the name of a famous actress who's now dead. You know the young these days, bringing mysteries and foreign ways into our lives.
Etymology
A twentieth-century blend of Mary and Lynn.
noun
- 1
A mountain or hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres.
Etymology
Named after Marilyn Monroe, as a pun on Munro (“any Scottish mountain taller than 3,000 feet”).
Forms
- plural
- Marilyns
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