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Cathleen

American  
[kath-leen] / kæθˈlin /

noun

  1. a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.


Example Sentences

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"I've been grinning since Hans arrived," says Cathleen, who paid a four-figure sum for the Austin - including delivery.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Although Keating and his other main star, Gabriel Byrne, wrote it as an Irish coming-of-age story, O’Hara’s Cathleen runs off with the movie.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026

Both will continue to report to Cathleen Taff, who is the studio division’s distribution and audience insights president.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Cathleen Clerkin, Candid’s associate vice president of research, said authors of the report compared its findings to other sector-wide data and found them to be consistent.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

Some of the notations he taught us—those in which there is no lilt, no recurring pattern of sounds—are like this notation for a song out of the first Act of The Countess Cathleen.

From Ideas of Good and Evil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)