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richard | christopher |

As proper nouns the difference between richard and christopher

is that richard is cognate to richard while christopher is .

richard

English

Proper noun

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  • * ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II :
    • What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard' loves ' Richard ; that is, I am I.
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
    • But we have known Williams and Richards , names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance'', ''Fight the good fight of faith , or such like,
  • * 1985 , , Pride , ISBN 0394536363, page 97:
    • I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard . That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.

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    christopher

    English

    (wikipedia Christopher)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1594 William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew : Induction, Scene II:
    • Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly's son, of Burtonheath; by birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?
  • * 1934 , The Nine Tailors :
    • - - - a baby, which also happened to fall due, was baptized "Paul" ( for the church ) "Christopher'" ( because St. ' Christopher had to do with rivers and ferries ), the Rector strenuously resisting the parents' desire to call it "Van Weyden Flood".

    • Related terms

    * diminutives: Chris, Christie, Chip, Kit * variants: Kester, Kristopher * feminine forms: Christine