Olivia vs Ethan - What's the difference?
olivia | ethan |
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* 1601 , Twelfth Night , Act I, Scene 1:
* 1766 , The Vicar of Wakefield :
* 1985 , Echoes , Arrow Books (2006), ISBN 978-0099498650, page 404:
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* 1889 John Langdon Heaton: The Story of Vermont: p.90 :
* 2001 , Alfred A. Knopf 2001, Back When We Were Grownups , ISBN 0375412530, page 88:
As a proper noun olivia
is (female given name).As a verb ethan is
.olivia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- O! when mine eyes did see Olivia first / Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence.
- I intended to call her after Aunt Grizel, but my wife who, during pregnancy, had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia . In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grizel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand godmother, the girl was, by her directions, called Sophia, so that we had two romantic names in the family, but I solemnly protest I had no hand in it.
- 'Olivia , that's a fine posh name for Castlebay,' he said approvingly. 'Ah, they're sick of these Davids and Clares and Gerrys, the dull old names,' Clare laughed. 'I hope they won't call her Olly,' David said. 'Make your own nickname then,' Gerry said. 'Livy?' Clare suggested. 'Liffey even?' Gerry said.
ethan
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
- There have been Ethan' Allen mills, '''Ethan''' Allen stock companies, '''Ethan''' Allen fire companies and ' Ethan Allen streets. The name of the daring partisan leader has been used in Vermont much as that of Washington throughout the Union.
- They would have named him something dignified: Ethan , or Tristram. Something that couldn't easily be shortened.