Adele
/əˈdɛl/
Meaning
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
Examples
The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such “fanciful and romantic” names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.
Word Forms
Adeles
Etymology
Borrowed from French Adèle, equivalent of Adela, from a Germanic root meaning “noble”. Compare athel, German edel, Old English æþele.