evelyn

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 12
Words With Friends: 14
Letters: 6

Pronunciation

/ˈɛvəlɪn/

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/ˈɛvəlɪn/ · /ˈiːvlɪn/

Definition of evelyn

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

“Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.”
“"I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye.”

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name

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

“Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.”
“"I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye.”
A surname originating as a matronymic.
A male given name transferred from the surname.

“Evelyn Waugh”
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Etymology

Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin aveo (“to wish for”)), or aval “strength”. By folk etymology the name Eve is seen as a diminutive of the female given name. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.