"Carolyn" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Carolyn",
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  "hyphenation": [
    "Car‧o‧lyn"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham, page 101",
          "text": "He never called me \"Carolyn\" until long after I'd stopped studying with him. It was always \"Caroline\", as in his Jardin aux Lilas. When at Juilliard he first learned my name, he snorted \"How affected!\" I was surprised. \"Carolyn\" affected? \"Caroline\" not? I'd always thought it was the other way around.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from the Germanic languages, a variant of Caroline used since the 19th century."
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        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
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        [
          "Caroline",
          "Caroline"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "卡羅琳"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Kǎluólín",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "卡罗琳"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹəlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹəlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Carolyn"
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      "expansion": "Carolyn",
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  "hyphenation": [
    "Car‧o‧lyn"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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          "ref": "2007, Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham, page 101",
          "text": "He never called me \"Carolyn\" until long after I'd stopped studying with him. It was always \"Caroline\", as in his Jardin aux Lilas. When at Juilliard he first learned my name, he snorted \"How affected!\" I was surprised. \"Carolyn\" affected? \"Caroline\" not? I'd always thought it was the other way around.",
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        "A female given name from the Germanic languages, a variant of Caroline used since the 19th century."
      ],
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          "given name",
          "given name"
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        [
          "Caroline",
          "Caroline"
        ]
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹəlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹəlɪn/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "卡羅琳"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Kǎluólín",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "卡罗琳"
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  ],
  "word": "Carolyn"
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