"Chris" meaning in English

See Chris in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /kɹɪs/ Audio: en-us-Chris.ogg Forms: Chrises [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪs Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Chrises}} Chris (plural Chrises)
  1. A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or (less commonly) Christian. Categories (topical): English diminutives of male given names, English given names, English male given names
    Sense id: en-Chris-en-name-Xgc9GN1e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 22
  2. A diminutive of the female given name (along with other variant forms) Christina. Categories (topical): English diminutives of female given names, English female given names, English given names
    Sense id: en-Chris-en-name-n3Ay5lCx
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chrises",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Chrises"
      },
      "expansion": "Chris (plural Chrises)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English diminutives of male given names",
          "parents": [
            "Diminutives of male given names",
            "Male given names",
            "Given names",
            "Diminutive nouns",
            "Names",
            "Nouns",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Lemmas",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English male given names",
          "parents": [
            "Male given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or (less commonly) Christian."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chris-en-name-Xgc9GN1e",
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given names",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Christopher",
          "Christopher#English"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "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": "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given name (along with other variant forms) Christina."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chris-en-name-n3Ay5lCx",
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Christina",
          "Christina#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹɪs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-Chris.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/En-us-Chris.ogg/En-us-Chris.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/En-us-Chris.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chris"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪs/1 syllable"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chrises",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Chrises"
      },
      "expansion": "Chris (plural Chrises)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English diminutives of male given names",
        "English given names",
        "English male given names"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or (less commonly) Christian."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given names",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Christopher",
          "Christopher#English"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English diminutives of female given names",
        "English female given names",
        "English given names"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given name (along with other variant forms) Christina."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Christina",
          "Christina#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹɪs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-Chris.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/En-us-Chris.ogg/En-us-Chris.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/En-us-Chris.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chris"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Chris meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.