Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Irish girl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A girl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anglo-Irish A girl; a maiden.
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- noun
girl - noun
young single woman
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an Irish girl
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The colleen is a high school junior picked for her scholastic and community activities.
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Presently, out of the crowd of frightened people sprang a "colleen" of about twelve years, as thinly and scantily clad as is consistent with that decency and modesty for which Irishwomen of the poorer classes are so justly celebrated.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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I was: from any doubts as to which I was speedily relieved by the entrance of the priest's bare-footed "colleen," to deposit on my table a bottle of soda water, and announce breakfast, with his reverence's compliments.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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I was: from any doubts as to which I was speedily relieved by the entrance of the priest's bare-footed "colleen," to deposit on my table a bottle of soda water, and announce breakfast, with his reverence's compliments.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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They can be reached at colleen.debaise@wsj.com , sarah.needleman@wsj.com and emily.maltby@wsj.com .
Married Colleen DeBaise 2011
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Write to Colleen DeBaise at colleen.debaise@wsj.com
Rising to the Occasion With a Bakery Chain Colleen DeBaise 2011
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Write to Colleen DeBaise at colleen.debaise@wsj.com
The Top 10 Clean-Tech Companies Colleen DeBaise 2011
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Google the International Reading Association. colleen k
Teaching reading? « Teaching Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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I had to wake up another pcv, colleen, and get her into my email account to write my father an email explaining my dilemma.
Archive 2009-05-01 alexis 2009
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Tagged: art and design · charity · colleen doran · ebay
brtom commented on the word colleen
"The colleen bawn, my colleen bawn. O, cheese it!"
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 27, 2007
sionnach commented on the word colleen
from the Irish word "cailin", meaning a girl.
February 19, 2007
seanahan commented on the word colleen
That quote is also the origination of the cracker Cheese-It.
February 19, 2007
irishcoleen commented on the word colleen
Regional American pronunciation is sometimes long O (midwest mostly) but correctly pronounced C"ah"leen.
June 9, 2009