Chloe

See also: Chloé and Chloë

English

Alternative forms

• Chloë, Cloe, Khloe, Khloé

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.i/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊi

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• drunk as Chloe

Translations

female given name

• Arabic: كلوي f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克洛伊 (Kèluòyī)

• Esperanto: Kloeo
• French: Chloé (fr) f
• Greek: Χλόη (el) f (Chlói)

  Ancient: Χλόη f (Khlóē)

• Italian: Cloe (it) f
• Japanese: クロエ (Kuroe)
• Korean: 클로에 (Keullo'e)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} کلویی (kloyi)
• Polish: Chloe (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cloé f
• Russian: Хло́я (ru) f (Xlója) (cognate)
• Spanish: Cloé f
• Thai: โคลอี

Anagrams

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

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Chloe

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.