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What does colleen mean?

Updated: 10/10/2023
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10y ago

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Colleen means girl in Irish and can be used as either a noun or an adjective.

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12y ago

look it up on webster....

coller means to be stuck to or glued to

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11y ago

It should be spelt cailín which means girl. This is used as a given name outside of Ireland.

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11y ago

With a capital 'C', it's a girl's name, so shouldn't change.

'colleen' is also an Irish word for 'girl' = 'muchacha/nina (irlandesa)'

('nina' has a tilde, ~, on the second 'n')

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11y ago

In Irish it is spelled cailín, 'colleen' is an English language version. It means girl or young woman.

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10y ago

The Irish language word cailín is pronounced like colleen. Cailín means girl. In the Irish language the word for "the" is "an". So "an cailín" in the Irish language means "the girl".

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