Chloe

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊi

Alternative forms

• Chloë
• Cloe

Origin

From Ancient Greek χλόη ("young green shoot"), an epithet of goddess Demeter.

Full definition of Chloe

Proper noun

• Authorized Version|1 Corinthians|1|11:For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
• 1731 Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:Of Chloe all the town has rung;
  By ev'ry Size of Poets sung.
  So beautiful a Nymph appears
  But once in Twenty Thousand Years.
• 1981 William Boyd (writer), A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton , ISBN 0241105161, page 24:Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.

Derived terms

• drunk as Chloe

Anagrams

• HELOC