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Sandra vs Sara - What's the difference?

sandra | sara |

As nouns the difference between sandra and sara

is that sandra is zander while sara is moon.

sandra

English

Proper noun

(s)
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  • * 1971 , The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press 1971, page 23:
  • "Sandra', that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is '''Sandra'''. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl '''Sandra''' for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star ' Sandra , or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."
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  • Usage notes

    * Popular in the Anglophone world from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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    sara

    English

    (wikipedia Sara)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
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  • Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  • *1850 (Dinah Craik), Olive , Chapman and Hall, page 151:
  • Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara , as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
  • *::My pensive Sara ! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
  • *:At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
  • * 2008 , The Northern Clemency , Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 175
  • 'I wish I was called Sara ,' she said out loud.
    'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
    'Not Sarah, Sara ,' Tracy said. 'There's no h , you say Saaara.'

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