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Paula

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpɔːlə//
  • //ˈpɑlə//

A female given name from Latin.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Latin.

    Names are fascinating, aren't they? I love mine. I think my parents had very good taste calling us Peter and Paula and Melinda.

    U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said Wednesday she will extend her temporary restraining blocking his removal until Abrego Garcia's latest deportation challenge in court is resolved.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Paula, feminine form of Paulus (“Paul”).

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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).