What is the difference between laurie and laura?
laurie | laura |
A pet form of the male given name Laurence.
* 1868 Louisa May Alcott: Little Women . Chapter 3:
derived from the male given name.
* ca. 1700 ?William Douglas: '':
A diminutive of Laura. Popular as a female given name in the US in the mid-twentieth century.
* 2005 Adeline Catherine Anderson: My Sunshine . Signet Classic 2005. ISBN 0451213807 page 397:
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* ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet : Act II, Scene IV:
* 1960 Peter S. Beagle: A Fine And Private Place . Random House Publishing, 1982:The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle. ISBN 0345300815 page 258:
Laura is a related term of laurie.
As proper nouns the difference between laurie and laura
is that laurie is a pet form of the male given name Laurence while Laura is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}.As a noun laura is
a number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.laurie
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Alternative forms
* (male given name)Lawrie * (female given name) Lauri, Lori, LorieProper noun
(en proper noun)- "I’m not Mr. Laurence, I’m only Laurie ."
- "Laurie Laurence, what an odd name."
- "My first name is Theodore, but I don’t like it, for the fellows called me Dora, so I made them say Laurie instead."
- Maxwelton braes are bonnie
- Where early fa's the dew;
- An' it's there that Annie Laurie
- Gi'ed me her promise true.
- Laura called her parents. Her father answered. Fighting to keep her voice steady, Laura said, "Hi, Daddy."
- "Laurie ? How's my little girl?"
laura
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(wikipedia Laura)Alternative forms
* Lora (rare)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in; Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her;
- Laura was saying something. A mellifluous name, he thought. I wish she were far away, so I could call her.
