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Eleanor vs Adele - What's the difference?

eleanor | adele |

As a proper noun eleanor

is (female).

As a noun adele is

(mathematics) a member of a self-dual topological ring built on the field of rational numbers (or, more generally, any algebraic number field), and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.

eleanor

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (female).
  • * : Act I, Scene II:
  • Nay, Eleanor', then must I chide outright: / Presumptuous dame! ill-nurtured ' Eleanor ! / Art thou not second woman in the realm, / And the protector's wife, belov'd of him?
  • * 1866 William 'Wilkie' Collins: Armadale . Kissinger Publishing 2004. ISBN 1417911972 page 288:
  • When you hear a young lady called Eleanor', you think of a tall, beautiful, interesting creature directly - the very opposite of ''me''! With my personal appearance, ' Eleanor sounds ridiculous - and Neelie, as you yourself remarked, is just the thing. No! no! don't say any more - - -

    adele

    English

    Etymology 1

    Anglicized form of , the (etyl) equivalent of Adela .

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • .
  • * 1833 The New Monthly Magazine , E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):
  • The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele , Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
  • See also

    * (Adele language) * (ade) *

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