Gwen

A female given name from Welsh, shortened from Gwendolen or Guinevere.

• IPA^(key): /ɡwɛn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -ɛn

Gwen

1. A female given name.

   Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.

   • 2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.

• gnew

Gwen

1. alternative form of Gwenn

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Gwen f

1. a female given name

Borrowed from English Gwen.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwen/ [ˈɡwɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: Gwen

Gwen (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜏᜒᜈ᜔)

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Welsh].

From *windā 'white', feminine form of Proto-Celtic *windos. Cf. Welsh gwyn.

Gwen f

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Gwyn

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN