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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Selina

fem. proper name, nativized form of French Céline, from Latin caelina "heavenly," from caelum (see celestial).

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Selina

Selina is a common feminine given name, of Greek origin, meaning " moon". Selina may refer to:

Selina (genus)

Selina westermanni is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Selina.

Selina (disambiguation)

Selina is a given name.

Selina may also refer to:

  • Selina (genus), genus of beetles
  • Selina River, a river in Romania
  • Lake Selina, a lake in Tasmania

Usage examples of "selina".

Miss Selina Fish, daughter of Barnabas Fish, Esquire, of Clapham, and merchant of the City of London.

Fancy taking Madge to Clapham in a nice white dress - it should be white, thought Selina - and presenting her as a saved lamb!

Sir William was married to Selina, daughter of Evelyn John Shirley, Esq., of Eatington, Warwickshire, a marriage occasioning great happiness and benefit to all the parish and neighbourhood.

Well, I suppose it must look quite cool, what with the airplane tickets and the restaurants, the cabs, the filmstars, Selina, the Fiasco, the money.

Not the hoarse ballads or self-righteous folksongs that Selina sometimes had on last thingbut jazz, Opera, classical.

Back home, there followed a detailed bout of valedictory lovemaking, with Selina game and longsuffering, and me as effusively carnal as ever.

While others look at art or read books or surrender to serious music, my mind just razzes me about money, Selina, hard-ons, the Fiasco.

And then, after a couple of weeks of that, he hops back over the pond to screw the smocks off Selina!

Selina swears to God that she just managed the counter, peddling ticklers and crotch-less pants and plastic ladies a vibrator saleswoman and dildo-wrapper, no more.

Lying between the sheets, or propped at my side during long and anxious journeys in the Fiasco, or seated across the table in the deep lees of high-tab dinners, Selina has frequently refreshed me with tales of insult and violation from her childhood and teenage years a musk-breathing, toffee-offering sicko on the common, the toolshed interrogations of sweat-soaked parkies, some lumbering retard in the alley or the lane, right up to the narcissist photographers and priapic prop-boys who used to cruise her at work, and now the scowling punks, soccer trogs and bus-stop boogies malevolently lining the streets and more or less constantly pinching her ass or flicking her tits and generally making no bones about the things they need to do.

Not content with her smart new chequebook, Selina now wants a Vantage card.

Selina is in high spirits, and as for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.

Selina shed her street clothes and pulled the sleek, black catsuit over her body.

After stamping on the catsuit and wringing it out with her hands, Selina threw it over the shower head and, wrapped in a towel, left the bathroom.

How can we care about a man who throws away his life for an empty-headed doll like Selina Denton whose personality appeals to men satisfied with women whose breasts and rear are extravagantly rounded in the cliché style of male chauvinistic fantasy?