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Patricia

American  
[puh-trish-uh, -tree-shuh] / pəˈtrɪʃ ə, -ˈtri ʃə /

noun

  1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “patrician.”


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He and his wife, Patricia Kelly, wanted to travel more.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Patricia Hitchcock regarded “Notorious”—Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 film starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains—as her father’s finest, and one can see why.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Members of Haining's family - Kevin O'Brien, Liz Harrigan and Patricia Audis - visited the exhibition this week during a study tour to Auschwitz, organised by the Renfrewshire branch of the Unison trade union.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Patricia said for her, Carnival was about "carrying the ancestral presence".

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Then you have my mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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