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Karen

¹ American  

[kuh-ren] / kəˈrɛn /

noun

• Karens,
  plural
• Karen
  plural

1. a group of people of eastern and southern Myanmar (Burma).

2. one of these people.

3. the language of the Karen, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan family.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Karen people or their language.

Karen ² American  

[kar-uhn, kahr-] / ˈkær ən, ˈkɑr- /

noun

1. Also Karin a first name, form of Katherine.

2. Informal: Disparaging.

   1. a white, usually middle-class woman who is rude, demanding, and aggressive toward other people, particularly customer service workers.

   2. a person acting in an aggressive, entitled, rude way.

      He went full Karen on the poor store manager and threatened to get her fired.

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Karen British  

/ kəˈrɛn /

noun

1. a member of a Thai people of Myanmar

2. the language of this people, probably related to Thai and belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Karen
  plural
• Karens
  plural

Example Sentences

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Karen Karens

This has become Karen & Steve’s Year of the Pilgrimage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Comments from central-bank Governor Anna Breman and Assistant Governor Karen Silk will also be closely watched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Neither Mayor Karen Bass nor Councilmember Nithya Raman — whose district includes the run-down home — immediately responded to requests for comment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime said he was "dizzy and seeing spots" in a surprise second-round loss to Karen Khachanov at the US Open.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Karen said, her face very serious, “What does that man do in there for so long?”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

On one side are so-called trail Karens, who monitor online web cameras and question why the forest service isn’t ticketing “ignorant and selfish” rule breakers who are hiking the mountain anyway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

At this point, McFarland wrote, "you gotta feel for the Karens of the world."

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2022

She was a caricature of a matriarch, but brought complexity and nuance to a type that is usually relegated to sketch comedy, two-dimensional walk-ons or viral videos of monstrous Karens.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

"This pilot deserves a raise for dealing with entitled Karens while doing his job," tweeted Christina Pushaw, who is the press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.

From Fox News ● Jan. 9, 2022

Ethnically connected with the Kuki-Naga groups are the Kakhyens of the Irawadi headstreams, and the Karens, who form numerous village communities about the Burma-Siamese borderland.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon