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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Enid

fem. proper name, from Middle Welsh eneit, "purity," literally "soul," from PIE *ane-tyo-, suffixed form of root *ane- "to breathe" (see animus).

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enid

n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Enidae.

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Enid, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 47045
Housing Units (2000): 21255
Land area (2000): 73.974855 sq. miles (191.593986 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.085647 sq. miles (0.221824 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 74.060502 sq. miles (191.815810 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23950
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.400583 N, 97.880784 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73701 73703
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Enid (song)

"Enid" is a song by the Canadian alternative rock group Barenaked Ladies. It was released as the lead-off single from their 1992 debut album, Gordon. It was written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson.

Enid (film)

Enid is a British dramatic television film first broadcast on 16 November 2009 on BBC Four. Directed by James Hawes it is based on the life of children's writer Enid Blyton, portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. The film introduced the two main lovers of Blyton's life. Her first husband Hugh Pollock, who was also her publisher, was played by Matthew Macfadyen. Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who became Blyton's second husband, was portrayed by Denis Lawson. The film explored how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life.

Enid (given name)

Enid is a feminine given name, the origin of which is Middle Welsh eneit, meaning "purity", literally "soul" (from Proto-Celtic *ana-ti̯o-, compare Gaulish anatia "souls " attested on the Larzac tablet, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁- "to breathe, blow"; cf. the modern Welsh anadl, "breath" or "wind"). Enid was a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859) and its medieval Welsh source, the Mabinogi tale of Geraint and Enid; according to The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names (1983),

"Enid drifted into use after publication of [Tennyson's] poem, and did not become firmly established until the 1890s. At its most popular in Britain in the 1920s, then began to fade slowly. Always rare elsewhere. Helena Swan once remarked that it was the greatest possible compliment for a woman to be called ‘a second Enid’, since the original was the perfect example of spotless purity."

Usage examples of "enid".

Blouse had bounced and wobbled back through the steam, Mrs Enid looked them all up and down, and then straight through.

Polly, taking advantage of the temporary absence of Mrs Enid, hurried in.

Seated facing him were Walter and Enid Wright, looking more washed out than yesterday, if that were possible, and a gray-suited woman in her forties with chin-length blond hair and red-framed glasses.

The attorney took the papers from Enid and examined them again, flipping back and forth several times between the first and third pages.

I remember Enid when she was young--very beautiful, and full of energy, but so domineering.

Enid took up a wide canvas tote and disappeared through the utility room, moving toward the backdoor.

It was a wrenching ordeal for both Bennett and Nest, and Old Bob even asked Enid to reconsider moving Bennett back until she was older.

Half angry, half lustful, Clay went to the bathroom door and opened it to find Enid douching herself.

He was still a college boy, member of an anonymous horde sought after by hostesses with daughters and no one else, while Enid was what Helen Ashley Barbour called a “young society matron,” occupied with going to parties and raising her child.

They were baggy enough, having been ordered to Caitlin's specification, to fit Dame Enid and Charles Fairburn, and even the Bishop wore one over his dog collar.

On one of her calls she'd got the SDP muddled up with the Labour Party and started plugging Dame Enid when she should have been pushing Lord Smith and Professor Graystock.

Either the changing of the scenes in his script to fit Enid had not taken him very long or else the photographing of this particular bit of action had proved sufficiently fascinating to draw him away from his work.

We have seven sleds already loaded with supplies for the small refuges south of here, so seven of us -- including Joncaster, Enid, and I—will drive them from here to the mountains.

Mistress Anan was out, it seemed -- she was always organizing soup kitchens for refugees or leaping into some other good work -- but Enid was waving a long wooden spoon at her scurrying helpers and ready to take his coin in her stout hand.

Once Dame Enid agreed, it was a piece of cake to recruit Professor Crispin Graystock, a rich left-wing English Literature don who had dry, unmanageable hair like Worzel Gummidge's dipped in soot, wild eyes and a wet formless face, and who longed to be a television star because he thought it would help sell his slim and unutterably dreary volumes of poetry.