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Wanda

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈwɒndə//
  • United States//ˈwɔndə//
  • United States//ˈwɑndə//
  • //ˈwɑːndə//
  • //ˈwɒndə//

A female given name from Polish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Polish.

    "Speaking of names, you're the first white Wanda I ever met." Wanda peeled off two sweaters and a woolen scarf." Well, you're the fifth or sixth colored I've had to tell that Wanda is an old Polish name I inherited from my Polish great-grandmother on me sweet dead mother's side;

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Wanda, possibly derived from an ethnic term for “a Wend”.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A Bantu language of Tanzania.

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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).