Katherine

alternative diminutive Kathy · alternative diminutive Kath · alternative diminutive Kate

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.

   The county’s top prosecutor, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, accused Artiles at a news conference on Thursday afternoon of paying an old friend almost $45,000 to mount a fake candidacy intended to illegally sway the election.

   2021 March 18, Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, “Former Florida state senator charged in spoiler candidate scheme”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021

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   SAVAGE (HENRY) - - - His aim was to appear great in little things, and the gravity with which he discusses the origin, derivation, &c of the name Katherine, whether it should be spelt with a K or a C, at which time the letter k was introduced, and the double l in Balliol, is truly wonderful. - - - By his wife, Lady Mary Sandys, he left issue Henry, Edwin, John, Katherine, and Thomas

   1816, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary, page 186

   During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.

   1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36

2. A town and local government area (the Town of Katherine) in the Northern Territory, Australia.
3. The Katherine Region (a region of the Northern Territory, Australia).
4. A river in the Northern Territory, which gave its name to the town.
5. An electoral division in the Northern Territory, Australia.
6. A census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.