Maud

• Maude

From Old French Mahaut. Doublet of Matilda.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /mɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd
• Homophone: mod (cot–caught merger)

Maud

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Dromio of Ephesus. Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn!
     Dromio of Syracuse. Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! - - - Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such a store

   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Come into the Garden Maud:

     Come into the garden, Maud, / For the black bat, night, has flown, / Come into the garden, Maud, / I am here at the gate alone;

2. A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9247).
3. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Wabash County, Illinois.
   2. An unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa.
   3. An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Missouri.
   4. A minor city in Pottawatomie County and Seminole County, Oklahoma.
   5. A minor city in Bowie County, Texas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.

• Queen Maud Land

• Damu, Duma, duma, muda

Ultimately from Old French Mahaut.

• IPA^(key): /mɑu̯t/

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• Hyphenation: Maud
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
• Homophone: mout

Maud f

1. a female given name

Maud f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Maud: Maudarson
• daughter of Maud: Maudardóttir

• Maude

• IPA^(key): /mod/

Maud f

1. a female given name, variant of Mathilde

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Maud c (genitive Mauds)

1. a female given name borrowed from English