"Erin" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ɛɹɪn/
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪn Etymology: Anglicisation of Irish Éirinn (dative singular and dialectal nominative singular of Éire (“Ireland”)). Etymology templates: {{m|ga|Éire||Ireland}} Éire (“Ireland”), {{der|en|ga|Éirinn|pos=dative singular and dialectal nominative singular of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">Éire</i> (“Ireland”)}} Irish Éirinn (dative singular and dialectal nominative singular of Éire (“Ireland”)) Head templates: {{en-prop}} Erin
  1. (poetic) Ireland. Tags: poetic
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-7Npg4K1n
  2. A locale in North America; named in honor of Ireland.
    A town in Ontario.
    Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Ontario, Towns in Canada, Towns in Ontario
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-6AaMLiOg
  3. A locale in North America; named in honor of Ireland.
    A town in Wisconsin.
    Categories (place): Places in Wisconsin, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in Wisconsin, USA, Towns in the United States
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-He2uWRgZ
  4. A locale in North America; named in honor of Ireland.
    A town in New York.
    Categories (place): Places in New York, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in New York, USA, Towns in the United States
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-B0r2GwFq
  5. A locale in North America; named in honor of Ireland.
    A city, the county seat of Houston County, Tennessee.
    Categories (place): Cities in Tennessee, USA, Cities in the United States, Places in Tennessee, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-fXw4MmIC Categories (other): County seats of Tennessee, USA
  6. A locale in North America; named in honor of Ireland.
    An unincorporated community in Texas.
    Categories (place): Places in Texas, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Texas, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-Gwvh14TX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 13 13 13 13 28 21
  7. A female or male given name, in use since the mid-20th century, used in honor of Ireland. Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names, English male given names, English unisex given names
    Sense id: en-Erin-en-name-BhjAC7bH Disambiguation of English unisex given names: 1 9 9 9 9 11 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Eryn, Arin, Eireann (english: female given name) Related terms: Port Erin

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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.