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David vs Deirdre - What's the difference?

david | deirdre |

As proper nouns the difference between david and deirdre

is that david is while deirdre is (irish mythology) the foremost tragic heroine in the ulster cycle of irish mythology daughter of fedlimid mac daill at birth, cathbad foretold that she would be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her she committed suicide.

david

English

(wikipedia David)

Proper noun

  • .
  • * 1994 , The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays , Counterpoint Press 2004, ISBN 1582433135, page 169:
    • David' Copperfield. Dwight '''David''' Eisenhower. Michelangelo's '''David'''. None of these '''Davids''' would seem the same if their names were Dave. ' David , with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely.
  • * 2000 , Merrick , Ballantine Books (2001), ISBN 0-345-44395-0, page 157:
    • Well, don't think I'll settle for so little, Mr. Talbot. Or should I call you David'? I think you look like a ' David , you know, righteous and clean living and all of that.
  • The second king of Judah and Israel, the successor of Saul in the Old Testament.
  • * :
    • David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
  • common in Wales.

    • Derived terms

    * Son of David * Star of David * Davidian * davidi

    Related terms

    * (pet forms) Dave, Davey, Davie, Davy; Davo (Australian ) (surnames) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    deirdre

    English

    (wikipedia Deirdre)

    Alternative forms

    * (in mythology)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Irish mythology) The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Fedlimid mac Daill. At birth, Cathbad foretold that she would be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her. She committed suicide.
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  • * 1885 Frances Mabel Robinson, Mr. Butler's Ward , Vizetelly, page 95:
    • Deirdre , it seemed to him, was the most beautiful name in the world. But Mrs. Stanley had different views on nomenclature. She had never, she declared, heard so utterly preposterous a name. - - -"Theatre and saltpetre are both spelt that way, Arthur; depend upon it, it is Deirder - a sort of peasant name like Darby and Biddy, a corruption of something else."
  • A beautiful, but suicidal woman.

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