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Zelda

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈzɛldə//

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Etymology

Shortened from Griselda.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of The Legend of ZeldaEllipsis of The Legend of Zelda.

    The Wind Waker is the best Zelda I’ve played since Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo.

    The blurring of distinctions between theory and evidence, between agent and tool, and between individual and group knowledge are seen in fan discussions about Zelda like they are in the practices of science.

    Unlike previous Zeldas, Breath of the Wild doesn't hold your hand.

    When developing Zelda games, director Hidemaro Fujibayashi thinks about the main hook of the game play before digging deeper into how it will out in combat or puzzles.

Forms

plural
Zeldas
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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).