name
Meaning 1
A male or female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lin
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈlɪn/
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lĭn
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/lɪn/
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homophone: linn
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homophone: Lynn
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homophone: lyn
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CMU ARPABET: L IH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Mandarin
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name
Meaning 4
A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Gan
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name
Meaning 5
A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Wu
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name
Meaning 6
A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Xiang
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name
Meaning 7
A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
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noun
Meaning 8
Alternative spelling of linn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Examples
- a roaring lin
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noun
Meaning 9
Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative, especially, in-compounds
Examples
- a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
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verb
Meaning 10
To desist, to stop, to cease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 11
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Maya Lin
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Broader terms: architect, designer, sculptor, sculpturer, carver, statue maker
History
Etymology
From Chinese: compare Mandarin 林 (lín), Gan 林 (lin4), Wu 林, Xiang 林 (lin2). 林 itself is composed of a reduplication of 木 (“wood, tree”). Literally, “forest”.
From Mandarin 臨/临 (Lín).
See English linn.
From Middle English lin, from Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 臨 /临 (Lín) — county