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Evelyn vs Avalon - What's the difference?

evelyn | avalon |

As proper nouns the difference between evelyn and avalon

is that evelyn is {{given name|female|from=Germanic}} while Avalon is {{context|Arturian legend}} An island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death.

evelyn

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1855 Robert Browning: Evelyn Hope :
    • Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.
  • * 1980 Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children . Alfred A.Knopf 1981. ISBN 0-394-51470-X page 179:
    • "I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye.
  • , transferred from the surname.

    • Related terms

    * Ava * Eileen * Eveleen * Eveline

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    avalon

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Arturian legend) An island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death.