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View Name: Gloriana


GLORIANA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: English (Rare)
PRONOUNCED: glawr-ee-AN-ə   [key]
Meaning & History
Elaborated form of Latin gloria meaning "glory". In Edmund Spenser's poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1590) this was the name of the title character, a representation of Queen Elizabeth I.
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