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Emily vs Zoe - What's the difference?

emily | zoe |

As an initialism emily

is (us|politics) early money is like yeast (ie it "raises dough", or makes money): receiving many donations early in a political race helps to attract further donors.

As an adverb zoe is

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emily

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
  • I am thy mortal foe, and it am I
    That so hot loveth Emily the bright,
    That I would die here present in her sight.
  • * 1830 (Mary Russell Mitford), Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
  • People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily', in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming ' Emilys
  • * 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
  • This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily , a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights , so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
  • * 2010 (Joanne Harris), blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
  • Emily . Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades β€” names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours β€” whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses β€”

    Usage notes

    * Emily has been used as a vernacular form of the Germanic Amelia, up to the nineteenth century. * Used since the Middle Ages; popular in the 19th century and once again today.

    See also

    * Amelia * Emma

    Anagrams

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    zoe

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a common spelling variant of .
  • * 1833 , Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance , Key&Biddle, page 112:
  • Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe , in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
  • * 1921 , , Stardust , BiblioBazaar, LLC (2007), ISBN 1426437080, page 20:
  • "Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe ! You never did yourself." ΒΆ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.
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