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Eleanor is a feminine given name. It is also sometimes spelt Elinor or Eleanore. The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Eleonora is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. ... Look up Appendix:Most popular given names by country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The first known bearer of the name was Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was named after her mother, Ænor de Châtellerault, and called "Aliénor", (from "Alia-Aenor"), which means "other-Aenor" in the langue d'oc (Occitan language), it became "Eléanor" in the northern Langue d'oïl and in English. Therefore the meaning of the name is sometimes given as "The Other". Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine (Aliénor dAquitaine in French), Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess of Poitou (1122[1] –April 1, 1204) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the High Middle Ages. ... Occitan (IPA AmE: ), known also as Lenga dòc or Langue doc (native name: occitan [1], lenga dòc [2]; native nickname: la lenga nòstra [3] i. ... The langue doïl language family in linguistics comprises Romance languages originating in territories now occupied by northern France, part of Belgium and the Channel Islands. ...

The meaning of the name Aenor however is still unknown.

In English the name is sometimes connected to Elena, Ellen or Elaine (->Helen, Helene) as well. It could be connected to the Greek eleos meaning "compassion" as well. // Elena may refer to: Elena, Bulgaria Santa Elena Elena Cornaro Piscopia Elena Dementieva Elena Kondakova Elena Nicolai Infanta Elena of Spain Elena Kuschnerova Elena Valenciano Elena Baltacha Elena Slough Elena Dostay Elena Likhovtseva Elena Baranova Elena Glinskaya Elena Vitrichenko Elena Mukhina Elena Magda Lupescu Elena Zamolodchikova Elena Filatova Fictional character... Look up Ellen, ellen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Elaine can refer to: who change? In fiction: Elaine (EastEnders), EastEnders character Elaine (legend), Arthurian legend characters Elaine Benes, Seinfeld character Elayne Trakand, Wheel of Time character In television and film: Elaine Hendrix, actress and singer The Exploits of Elaine, 1914 film serial in the genre of The Perils of... Helen. ... Helene (from Greek: Ελένη [helene - torch or corposant], modern Greek pronuncation Eleni, English also Helena, Elena, Elaine, Helen, Hellen, or Ellen) is a very popular female name, first attested in the Iliad (Helen of Troy). ...

In medieval Arabic the similar sounding name "Allahu Nuri" (Allahu Nooree) means "God is my light". The modern version is Nurullah (Noorullah) which means "light of God". The similar Hebrew name Eliora is a feminine form of Elior, meaning "my God is light".

More recently J. R. R. Tolkien created an alternative meaning for this name using his made up Elvish language Quenya. In his novel The Lord of the Rings Elanor means "sun-star" (el: star, and anor: sun), and is the name of a golden five-pointed flower that grows in the woods of Lothlórien and the given name of a golden-haired child. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. ... Elvish languages are constructed languages used typically by elves in a fantasy setting. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by the English academic J. R. R. Tolkien. ... location of Lórien in Middle-earth marked in red This article is about the Lórien of J. R. R. Tolkiens works. ...

There are also many variants in other languages.

First names that can be interpreted as Eleanor in English

• Eleonore German
• Ελεωνόρα (Eleōnora) Greek
• Eleonóra Hungarian, Slovak
• Eleonora Polish, Swedish
• Leonor Spanish, Portuguese
• Elinor Hebrew
• Eleonora Italian
• Alinah Malay

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Notable Eleanors

• Several queens are known as Queen Eleanor, most notably Eleanor of Aquitaine
• The Infanta Leonor of Spain
• Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eleanor Marx
• Eleanor Roosevelt, the activist, diplomat, and wife and First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Eleanor Powell, a tap-dance legend
• Eleanor Rigby, the fictional titular subject of a 1966 song by The Beatles; although she is fictional, a gravestone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby exists in a church in the band's birthplace of Liverpool
• Elinor Dashwood, the heroine of Jane Austen's popular novel, Sense and Sensibility
• Eleanor Murray
• Eleanor Moore

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Other uses of Eleanor

• Franz Ferdinand have recently released a song titled 'Eleanor Put Your Boots On'.
• Jet have recently released a song titled 'Eleanor'.
• The Turtles released a song titled 'Elenore' in 1968.
• Eleanor is also the codename for the legendary Mustangs seen in both versions of the film Gone in 60 Seconds: in the original 1974 version, Eleanor is a 1973 Mach 1 coupe, while in the 2000 remake, Eleanor is a modified 1967 Shelby GT500.

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