Céline

American

[say-leen] / seɪˈlin /

noun

Louis-Ferdinand Louis F. Destouches, 1894–1961, French novelist and physician.

Céline British

/ seɪˈliːn /

noun

Louis-Ferdinand (lwifɛrdinɑ̃), real name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches. 1894–1961, French novelist and physician; became famous with his controversial first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

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Céline Dion will go on — even after taking a little tumble onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Céline Dion will perform in Paris in September and October, marking her return to the stage after her diagnosis with stiff-person syndrome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

His reading was precociously broad: Marx and Engels, Baudelaire and Céline, all in their original languages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Céline, not her real name, is a single-mother in France whose child was conceived with the donor's sperm 14 years ago and has the mutation.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

On recognising him, the fang of the snake Jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Céline sank under an extinguisher.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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