Steve vs Meredith - What's the difference?
steve | meredith |
A diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name.
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* 1942 , (Agatha Christie), Five Little Pigs (HarperCollins 1994, ISBN 0006163726), page 26:
; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.
* 2004 , Jo Goodman, Forever In My Heart (Zebra Books 2004, ISBN 082177784X), page 412:
As a verb steve
is to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.As a proper noun meredith is
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)Quotations
* 1989 Ann Beattie: Picturing Will , Random House, ISBN 0394569873, page 67: *: His first name was probably Steve' or Ed. No, there were no more ' Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael. * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book Three,Chapter 13, *: Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace. *: "Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen." English diminutives of male given namesmeredith
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Proper noun
(s)- What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith'. ' Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not.
- "What did I hear you say her name was?"
- "Meredith . Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family."
- "Meredith ," he repeated softly. "I like it."