Emily vs Zoe - What's the difference?
emily | zoe |
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* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1830 (Mary Russell Mitford), Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
* 2010 (Joanne Harris), blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
, a common spelling variant of .
* 1833 , Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance , Key&Biddle, page 112:
* 1921 , , Stardust , BiblioBazaar, LLC (2007), ISBN 1426437080, page 20:
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
.emily
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 * EmmaAnagrams
* ----zoe
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe , in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
- "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.