English

Proper noun

Amelia

1. A female given name
   • 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam, The World of Adam Fitz-Adam, Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:

     By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.

   • 1982 Carol Fenner, Saving Amelia Earhart,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction, ISBN 0814316956 page 66:

     We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia Earhart, lost over the ocean. - - - Air Heart, I saw it spelled, Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.

See also

• Alma
• Amy
• Emily

Translations

Spanish

Proper noun

Amelia f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Amelia.

English

Noun

amelia ‎(uncountable)

1. (pathology) The congenital absence of one or more limbs.

Derived terms

• amelus
• hemimelia

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

amelia f (plural amelias)

1. (teratology) amelia (congenital absence of one or more limbs)