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Theodore - What does it mean?

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theodore

English

Proper noun

(wikipedia Theodore) (en proper noun)
  • ; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors and a president.
  • * 1820 , Names , The Indicator, No. XVIII, February 9th, 1820:
    • It is as well certainly not to call a parcel of idle and ragged young rogues by the titles of Augustus, Orlando, and Theodore : nor does it sound very fitting and heroical to hear a father cry out pompously to his little boy, as we did once, - "You, Sir, there, - Maximilian,- come out of the gutter."
  • * 2010 (w, Maggie O'Farrell), The Hand That First Held Mine , Headline, ISBN 9780755308453, page 234:
  • *:'Perfect. What name are we going to give him?'
  • *:'Theo.'
  • *:'Oh.'
  • *:'As in Theodore .'
  • *:'Isn't that rather a...?' He stopped. Smiled at her again. 'Why Theodore ?'
  • *:'I like it. And it suits him. Maybe because it contains the sound 'adore'.'

    • Related terms

    * (pet forms) Ted, Teddy, Theo * (feminine forms) Theodora * (as a calque) Bogdan, Bohdan

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