Gwen

G2W4E1N1
/ɡwɛn/

proper noun

A female given name from Welsh.

“Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.”

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Meanings

proper nounGwen (plural Gwens)

plural Gwens

  1. A female given name from Welsh.

    Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.

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    The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.

    2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2021

Origin

  1. WelshGwen
  2. EnglishGwen

A female given name from Welsh. * Borrowed from Welsh Gwen. * Clipping of Gwendolen. Doublet of Wendy. * Clipping of Guinevere. Doublet of Jen.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gwen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gwen.

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