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Maude

proper nounattested in dialogue

A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.

    - - - he once more changed the subject of Maude's looks to her name, which he heard was really Matilda. She had been called Maude, Matty said, after one who was once a very dear friend both of herself and her husband. "Then we will call her Matilda," said he, "as it is a maxim of mine never to spoil children by giving them pet names."

    "Fine," said Blanche, "but 'Maude' sounds anything but continental." "Suppose we change her name to 'Meredith Meredro'," I suggested.

  2. 2

    A locality in the Hay council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.

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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).