Enid
Americannoun
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a city in N Oklahoma.
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Arthurian Legend. the constant and patient wife of Sir Geraint in The Mabinogion and in Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
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a female given name.
noun
Example Sentences
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He had once been a Catholic priest - before quitting the church to run off with Enid, two weeks after he'd married her to someone else.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
As a child, she also read Enid Blyton's Malory Towers books, which follow the lives of girls at a Cornish boarding school in the 1940s and 50s.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Neither could Enid, a New Jersey resident who declined to give her last name.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
Enid told MarketWatch that she’s given up on taking part in the Halloween ritual as a result.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
“The fire’s lit, but the cauldron’s empty,” as Ivor Dillonsby put it to me, or, in Enid Smeek’s slightly earthier phrase, “She’s nutty as squirrel poo.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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