Chloe

Chloe

See also: Chloé and Chloë

English

Alternative forms

• Chloë, Cloe, Khloe, Khloé

Etymology

Borrowed Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.i/

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• Rhymes: -əʊi

Proper noun

Chloe

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 1:11:

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     For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

   • 1731 Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:

     Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.

   • 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:

     Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.

Derived terms

• drunk as Chloe

Translations

female given name

Arabic: كلوي‎ f Esperanto: Kloeo French: Chloé (fr) f Greek: Χλόη (el) f (Chlói) Ancient: Χλόη f (Khlóē) Italian: Cloe (it) f Japanese: クロエ (Kuroe) Korean: 클로에 (Keullo'e) Persian: (please verify) کلویی‎ (Kloyi) Polish: Chloe (pl) f Portuguese: Cloé f Russian: Хло́я (ru) f (Xlója) (cognate) Spanish: Cloé f Thai: โคลอี

Anagrams

• Cohle, HELOC, c-hole, chole, chole-, loche

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Chloe, from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”).

Proper noun

Chloe

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.