Lilian vs Lillian - What's the difference?
lilian | lillian | Alternative forms |
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* 1830 Alfred Tennyson: Lilian :
* 2004 Willem Dijkstra: May You Live in Interesting Times . iUniverse 2004. ISBN 0595315178 page 77:
. (This is the standard American spelling.)
* 1836 Adeline Sergeant: Lillian Lee :
* 1907 Lewis Clinton Strang: Famous Prima Donnas . L.C.Page&Co, 1907. page 33:
Lillian is a alternative form of lilian.
As proper nouns the difference between lilian and lillian
is that lilian is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} while Lillian is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}. (This is the standard American spelling..lilian
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* LillianProper noun
(en proper noun)- Airy, fairy Lilian', / Flitting, fairy ' Lilian , / When I ask her if she loves me, / Claps her tiny hands above me, / Laughing all she can.
- When it was my turn Roger told the crowd that my romanised second and third name, if written as one word in Pinyin, as is now the custom, was exactly like the English girl's name Lilian' and he therefore proposed to leave it like that, ' Lilian being a very pretty name, he said.
Anagrams
* ----lillian
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* (U.K.) LilianProper noun
(en proper noun)- Your mother's name was Lillian , Minnie Lee,
- Her other name I never heard, until
- I stood within the church and saw her wed
- So she is ever Lillian Lee to me.
- Lillian' Russell was christened Helen Louise Leonard. Tony Pastor gave her the name ' Lillian Russell, for the very practical reason, I believe, that it had so many "l's" in it, and consequently would look well on a bill-board.