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Amelia vs Luke - What's the difference?

amelia | luke |

As proper nouns the difference between amelia and luke

is that amelia is {{given name|female|from=Germanic} while Luke is a given name derived from Latin.

As a noun amelia

is the congenital absence of one or more limbs.

As an adjective luke is

lukewarm.

amelia

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • * 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam, The World of Adam Fitz-Adam , Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
    • By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia ; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
  • * 1982 , Saving Amelia Earhart ,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction, ISBN 0814316956 page 66:
    • We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia' Earhart, lost over the ocean. - - - Air Heart, I saw it spelled, ' Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.

    See also

    * Alma * Amy * Emily

    luke

    English

    (wikipedia Luke)

    Alternative forms

    * (rare biblical abbreviation)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 2005 Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743251636, page 94:
    • "Your parents like Cool Hand Luke''''', yes?" "I don't really know. Why?" "Why? Because they name you '''Luke'''." I was worried I might have to explain that my name wasn't all that uncommon, and, anyway, Claudia had named me after the alter ego of Hank Williams, ' Luke the Drifter.
  • (Luke the Evangelist), an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
  • * :
    • Luke , the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
  • (biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.

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