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🧜 Water spirit 👧 A girl's name
ondine

ondine

9.9
A girl's name taken from a myth about a water spirit
  • proper noun
  • /ɒnˈdiːn/
translation icon : Ondine
  • Mr. Street, who is old and needs looking after, cannot very well exist on his own; and Ondine and Sydney simply have no place to go.
  • Ondine and Sydney

Examples

  • This is Ondine and Brigid.

    Factory Girl (2006)

  • Bianca decided to name her baby girl Ondine, inspired by the mythical water spirit.

  • Ondine, this is my daughter, Annie.

    Ondine (2010)

  • You can call me Ondine. - That's nice.

    Ondine (2010)

  • But Ondine herself was as young and inexperienced as Mrs. Street, and what is more, she could not risk her job.

    Academic text (1996)

  • And then, Ondine, the black cook, says, "I may be a cook, Mr. Street, but I'm a person too" (208).

    Academic text (1996)

  • In deference to the wishes of Sydney and Ondine, he helped Jadine through school and college.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Ondine and Sydney inhabit a different world; however, one no less remote from present-day society.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Where's Ondine?

    Ondine (2010)

  • Ondine's close by.

    Ondine (2010)

Surface Forms

ondine main

Etymology

Ondine as a given name comes from the water spirit of old stories and from the Latin unda meaning 'wave'. So people use the name Ondine to give the idea of the sea or a graceful, water-like beauty.