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col⋅leen

[kol-een, ko-leen]
–noun
an Irish girl.

Origin:
1820–30; < Ir cailín, equiv. to caile girl, wench + -ín dim. suffix

Col⋅leen

[kol-een, ko-leen]
–noun
a female given name: from an Irish word meaning “girl.”
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col·leen   (kŏ-lēn', kŏl'ēn')   
n.  An Irish girl.

[Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish.]
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