Sharon

See also: sharon

English

Etymology

Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shă'rən, IPA^(key): /ˈʃæɹən/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æɹən

Proper noun

Sharon

1. A plain in Israel.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:1:

     I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2. A female given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
3. A unisex given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
   • 1927, Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 183:

     My name is Katie Jonas. I was born in Utica. My dad worked on a brickyard. I picked out the name Sharon Falconer while I was a stenographer.

   • 2001, Deborah Cameron, Working With Spoken Discourse, SAGE, →ISBN, page 157:

     The group suggested a number of reasons why a girl might not fit in to their community - for instance, if she wore white socks and had a name like 'Sharon'.

4. Any of a number of places in the US and Canada named after the biblical place.
   1. A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
   2. A town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.
   3. A town and village in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
5. A surname.

Usage notes

• Popular given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.

Derived terms

• rose of Sharon
• Sharon fruit
• Sharon Springs

Related terms

• Shaz
• Shazza

Translations

a plain in Israel

• Finnish: Saaron
• Hebrew: השרון (HaSharon)
• Japanese: シャロ平野 (Sharon Heiya)
• Polish: Równina Szaron
• Portuguese: Sarom m

female given name

• Dutch: Sharon (nl)
• French: Sharon (fr)
• Hebrew: שָׁרוֹן (he) (Sharón)
• Italian: Sharon (it)
• Japanese: シャロン (Sharon)
• Russian: Шэ́рон (ru) f (Šɛ́ron)

a place name

• Japanese: シャロン (Sharon)

surname

• Japanese: シャロン (Sharon)

Noun

Sharon (plural Sharons)

1. (UK, derogatory, slang) A working-class female.
   • 2005, Birgitte Tufte, Jeanette Rasmussen, Lars Bech Christensen, Frontrunners Or Copycats? (page 83), quoting a 17-year-old girl

     'Cos all the Sharons go with the Rocker type of skaters - because I've got friends who are really good friends with Sharons and they are skaters. And you don't hold it against them that they are Sharons and they are rockers.

Coordinate terms

• Kev

See also

• Kevin
• Wikipedia article on Ariel Sharon

Anagrams

• Ahrons, Horans, Roshan, SHORAN, rhason

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Sharon, from Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).

Proper noun

Sharon

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Hebrew]
2. (biblical) a plain in Israel