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Pauline¹

  • /ˈpɔːˌliːn/
  • /pɔˈlin/ US
  • /pɑˈlin/ US, cot caught merger, dialectal
  • /pɒˈlin/ Canada, dialectal

Where it comes from

From French Pauline, in turn from Latin Paulīna; in regular use since the 19th century. By surface analysis, Paul + -ine (feminine suffix).

proper noun Paulines

  1. A female given name from Latin. The youngest child of George and Emily Johnson was named Emily after her mother, and Pauline in honor of the only sibling of Emperor Napoleon of France, whose life was the object of George Johnson's consuming interest.

Pauline²

  • /ˈpɔːˌlaɪn/
  • /ˈpɔˌlaɪn/ US
  • /ˈpɔˌlin/ US
  • /ˈpɑˌlaɪn/ Canada, US, cot caught merger
  • /ˈpɑˌlin/ Canada, US, cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːlaɪn

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English Paulyn, from Latin Paulīnus. By surface analysis, Paul + -ine (adjectival suffix).

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or relating to Paul the Apostle, his writings, his doctrines, and the form of Christianity that arose from them.

    Similar: Paulian

noun Paulines

  1. A member of a religious order named after Paul the Apostle. With sectes many mo, / An hundreth in a throo / I thinke to name by roo, / As they come to my mynde, / Whom, thoughe they be vnkind, / The lay mens labor finde; / For some be Benedictes […] Some be Paulines, / Some be Antonynes, / Some be Bernardines, /Some be Celestines, […]
  2. A person who follows or is associated with Paul the Apostle or his doctrines. Between Paul and Apollos there had arisen distinct rivalry. When he wrote this epistle to Corinth, quite a chasm existed already between the Paulines and the Apollonians, with something of a rift between Apollos and himself.

    Similar: Paulian

  3. in plural One of the Pauline epistles. One of the most characteristic departures from class. style is the rarity of the correlation of μέν and δέ in Biblical Greek; it occurs with any frequency only in some Paulines, Ac and Heb.
  4. A member of St Paul’s School, London. I wasn't unusually unfashionable or unworldly by St Paul's standards. But the standards weren't high. Put it like this: most Paulines I knew would have assumed a Camberwell carrot was vegetable grown in south London.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: paula, paulina, tracey, mrs, deutero, biblical, apostolic, christian, doctrinal, evangelic, scriptural, holy, sacred, canonical, saintly, epistolary

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Every language

name female given name

EspañolPaulina
PortuguêsPaulina, Pauline
FrançaisPauline
DeutschPauline
ΕλληνικάΠαυλίνα Pavlína, Πωλίνα Polína
РусскийПоли́на Polína, Павли́на Pavlína

adj of or relating to Paul the Apostle and his doctrines

Portuguêspaulino
Deutschpaulinisch
Italianopaolino

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@misc{pauline_2026,
  title = {Pauline},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pauline},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}