Estella

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proper noun

A female given name from Latin.

OriginFrench Estelle →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A female given name from Latin.
    1 more example

    To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order. But she answered at last, and her light came along the dark passage like a star.

    1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VIII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 124
  2. A suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Origin

  1. FrenchEstelle
  2. EnglishEstella

Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.

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APA

Estella. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Estella

MLA

“Estella.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Estella. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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