"Cathy" meaning in English

See Cathy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈkæθi/ Forms: Cathys [plural], Cathies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Cathys|Cathies}} Cathy (plural Cathys or Cathies)
  1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century. Categories (topical): English diminutives of female given names, English female given names, English given names Synonyms: Cathi, Cathie, Kathi, Kathie, Kathy
    Sense id: en-Cathy-en-name-7jAhbAbW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Cathy meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Cathys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Cathies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Cathys",
        "2": "Cathies"
      },
      "expansion": "Cathy (plural Cathys or Cathies)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English diminutives of female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Diminutives of female given names",
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Diminutive nouns",
            "Names",
            "Nouns",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Lemmas",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Hodder & Stoughton, page 124",
          "text": "'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon. 'Tell her to call herself Cat and, for Christ's sake, get her to stop biting her lip all the time.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century."
      ],
      "id": "en-Cathy-en-name-7jAhbAbW",
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Catherine",
          "Catherine#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Cathi"
        },
        {
          "word": "Cathie"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kathi"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kathie"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kathy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæθi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cathy"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Cathys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Cathies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Cathys",
        "2": "Cathies"
      },
      "expansion": "Cathy (plural Cathys or Cathies)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English diminutives of female given names",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English female given names",
        "English given names",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Hodder & Stoughton, page 124",
          "text": "'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon. 'Tell her to call herself Cat and, for Christ's sake, get her to stop biting her lip all the time.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Catherine",
          "Catherine#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæθi/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Cathi"
    },
    {
      "word": "Cathie"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kathi"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kathie"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kathy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cathy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.