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Adélaïde

/a.de.la.id/

proper noun/a.de.la.id/

Adelaide (the capital and largest city of South Australia, Australia); a female given name, equivalent to English Adelaide

From Old French, from Old High German Adalheid (modern German Adelheid), from adal (“noble”) + heit (“nature, character”), from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”). Doublet of Alice.