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I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.
Jennifer Nettles

Meaning of "Helen" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HELEN

Helen  [ˈhɛlɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HELEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Helen is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HELEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Helen

Helen may refer to: ▪ Helen of Troy, from Greek mythology ▪ Helen ▪ Helen, a play by Euripides ▪ Helen, a fictional supporting character in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy ▪ Helen, a 2009 drama starring Ashley Judd and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck ▪ Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, a webcomic ▪ Helen, a humorous unit of measuring beauty ▪ Helen, a Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes ▪ Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city ▪ Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place ▪ Helen Lake in Montana in the United States ▪ Helen Lake ▪ Helen Falls, a waterfall in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Temagami, Ontario, Canada ▪ Helen, a Bollywood actress and dancer...

Definition of Helen in the English dictionary

The definition of Helen in the dictionary is the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda, whose abduction by Paris from her husband Menelaus caused the Trojan War.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HELEN


berlin
bəˈlɪn
Brooklyn
ˈbrʊklɪn
colin
ˌkɒlɪn
discipline
ˈdɪsɪplɪn
Dublin
ˈdʌblɪn
Evelyn
ˈiːvlɪn
flagellin
fləˈdʒɛlɪn
franklin
ˈfræŋklɪn
ghrelin
ˈɡrɛlɪn
gibberellin
ˌdʒɪbəˈrɛlɪn
Hellen
ˈhɛlɪn
Helvellyn
hɛlˈvɛlɪn
lin
lɪn
Llewellyn
luːˈɛlɪn
Lynn
lɪn
monellin
məˈnɛlɪn
porcelain
ˈpɔːslɪn
tellin
ˈtɛlɪn
vitellin
vɪˈtɛlɪn
vitelline
vɪˈtɛlɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HELEN

Heitler
hejab
Hejaz
Hejira
Hekate
heketara
Hekla
Hel
Hela
helcoid
held
Heldentenor
hele
hele in
Helena
Helengrad
helenium
Helgoland

WORDS THAT END LIKE HELEN

Allen
Cullen
fallen
Galen
glen
Heerlen
Kerguelen
magdalen
McKellen
Mechelen
mullen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
pollen
stolen
stollen
sullen
swollen
the Great Glen
Westfalen
woollen

Synonyms and antonyms of Helen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Helen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HELEN

Find out the translation of Helen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Helen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Helen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海伦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Helen
570 millions of speakers

English

Helen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हेलेन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هيلين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Елена
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Helen
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হেলেন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Helen
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Helen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Helen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヘレン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

헬렌
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Helen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Helen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஹெலன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेलन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Helen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Helen
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Helen
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Олена
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Helen
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ελένη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Helen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Helen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Helen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Helen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HELEN»

The term «Helen» is very widely used and occupies the 7.847 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HELEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Helen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Helen» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Helen

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10 QUOTES WITH «HELEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Helen.
1
Jennifer Armintrout
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
2
Erma Bombeck
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
3
Ray Comfort
Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.
4
Carlisle Floyd
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
5
Laura Fraser
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
6
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
7
Mary Stuart Masterson
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
8
Richard Masur
No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
9
Jennifer Nettles
I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.
10
Kenneth Noland
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HELEN»

Discover the use of Helen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Helen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Helen in Egypt
Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.
Hilda Doolittle, H. D., 1974
2
Helen
"The Helen of this play never goes to Troy, but is carried to Egypt, where she remains during and after the Trojan War, waiting faithfully for her husband Menelaus to rescue her.
Euripides, 2004
3
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather.
Mary Downing Hahn, 2008
4
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity.
Norman Austin, 2008
5
Helen Keller: A Life
Draws on the archives of Helen Keller's estate and the unpublished memoirs of Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, to trace Keller's transformation from a furious girl to a world-renowned figure
Dorothy Herrmann, 1999
6
Euripides: 'Helen'
Detailed commentary, suitable for students, on one of the most skilful and original Greek tragedies.
Euripides, William Allan, 2008
7
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day.
Laurie Maguire, 2009
8
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of ...
This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the ...
Helen Nissenbaum, 2009
9
Author: A True Story
So begins the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many other popular books for children. By sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author, she demonstrates that hurdles are part of the process.
Helen Lester, 2002
10
Helen Keller, Public Speaker: Sightless But Seen, Deaf But Heard
An account of Keller's public speaking, concentrating on characteristics of her speeches, their effectiveness, and her radical activism.
Lois J. Einhorn, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HELEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Helen is used in the context of the following news items.
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Helen Holt, former WV Secretary of State, passes away - WOWK 13 …
Helen Holt, former West Virginia Secretary of State and the first woman to hold a statewide office in the Mountain State, passed away July 12. «WOWK, Jul 15»
2
Linen shortages force ops to be cancelled at Helen Joseph: DA …
The DA's provincial health spokesperson‚ Jack Bloom‚ said that shortages of clean linen “forced the cancellation of operations at the Helen ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
3
Helen Harrison, author of book on premature babies, dies at 68 …
Helen Harrison's "The Premature Baby Book," which was published in 1983, was regarded for years as "the preemie bible" for families ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
4
Helen Marcinko - Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Helen Marcinko. July 15, 2015. Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Save |. Helen Mary Marcinko, 92, of Parkersburg, died Tuesday June 30, 2015, surrounded by ... «Parkersburg News, Jul 15»
5
Twin chefs and restaurateurs Lisa and Helen Tse seal sweet deal …
Twin chefs and restauranteurs Lisa and Helen Tse has sealed a deal to see their range of sauces stocked in 250 Waitrose stores. The gluten ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
6
Joy Helen Kaler - Ravalli Republic
STEVENSVILLE – Joy Helen Kaler passed away peacefully at her home in Stevensville, in the comfort of her family on Saturday, July 11, 2015. «Ravalli Republic, Jul 15»
7
Helen Woodson | Columbia Daily Herald
Helen Woodson, age 83, a resident of Columbia, passed away Sunday, July 12, 2015 at Signature Health Care. A funeral service will be held ... «Columbia Daily Herald, Jul 15»
8
Big Brother housemates grill each other: "Aisleyne, Helen or Sarah …
Danny is asked whether he preferred Aisleyne, Helen or Sarah. He names Sarah over the two 'legendary' housemates, explaining: "We hit it off ... «Digital Spy UK, Jul 15»
9
La Dolce Vita! Helen Mirren joins Antonio Banderas and his …
And once again, Helen Mirren joined Antonio Banderas and his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel at a lavish dinner gala, held at the Strand Hotel Delfini, ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
Harpic Unveils Helen Paul In New TVC - News on Naij.com
Guess what?… Helen Paul the delectable and stylish comedienne, presenter, singer and actress is now the new face of Harpic which is noted for clean, germ ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»

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