Meanings
- A female given name from Spanish.
“It’s over,” said Aracelis Matias, a home health aide from East New York, Brooklyn, whose sister Nuris was one of the victims on Flight 587.
2004 June 27, Seth Kugel, “Neighborhood Report: Washington Heights; In Tragedy’s Wake, Money That Soothes Can Also Complicate”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 20152 more examples
Wanda Aracelis Echavarria, the daughter of Daisy Santos of Maywood, N.J., and Jose A. Echavarria of Ridgefield Park, N.J., was married yesterday to Kenneth James Drummond, a son of Barbara and Edward J. Drummond of Hicksville, N.Y.
2001 October 14, “Wanda Echavarria and Kenneth Drummond”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLCIn Aracelis Girmay’s 2011 collection Kingdom Animalia, everything from natural phenomena to human inventions is in some way animalistic and accordingly possesses (as the book’s description puts it), “a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth and language”.
2015 August 14, Joanna Scutts, “Stop and hear the poetry: spoken words beckon to bustling New York City”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2015
Origin
- SpanishAracelis
- EnglishAracelis
From Spanish Aracelis, a variant of Araceli.
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