Chloe

• Chloë, Cloe, Khloe, Khloé

Borrowed Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.i/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊi

Chloe

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:11:
     :

     For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:

     Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.

   • 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:

     Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.

• drunk as Chloe

• Cohle, HELOC, c-hole, chole, chole-, loche

From English Chloe, from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”).

Chloe

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.

Learned borrowing from Latin Chloē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxlɔ.ɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔɛ
• Syllabification: Chlo‧e

Chloe f (indeclinable)

1. (rare) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]

• Chloe in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English Chloe.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈklowi/ [ˈkloː.wɪ]
• Rhymes: -owi
• Syllabification: Chlo‧e

Chloe (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜓᜏᜒ)

1. a female given name from English