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There are 26 different meanings of Eleanor.

Eleanor Disambiguation
Britney Spears
4 products, approx. 36 pages
Eleanor Walmsley, is an Alaskan bear hunter extroardinare. She is also known for her close friendship to singer/dancer Britney Spears.
German language
5 products, approx. 36 pages
Eleonore German
Hebrew Language
9 products, approx. 30 pages
Elinor Hebrew
Italian language
4 products, approx. 21 pages
Eleonora Italian
Malay language
4 products, approx. 19 pages
Alinah Malay
Greek language
4 products, approx. 14 pages
Ελεωνόρα (Eleōnora) Greek
Jet (band)
1 product, approx. 8 pages
Jet have recently released a song titled 'Eleanor'.
The Turtles
2 products, approx. 6 pages
The Turtles released a song titled 'Elenore' in 1968.
Eleanor Powell
1 product, approx. 6 pages
Eleanor Powell, a tap-dance legend
Infanta Leonor of Spain
1 product, approx. 2 pages
The Infanta Leonor of Spain
Eleanor is a feminine given name. It is also sometimes spelt Elinor or Eleanore. The first known bearer of the name was Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was named after her mother, Ænor de Châtellerault, and called "Aliénor", (from "Alia-Aenor"), which means "other-Aenor" in the langue d'oc (Occitan language), it became "Eléanor" in the northern Langue d'oïl and in English. Therefore the meaning of the name is sometimes given as "The Other". The meaning of the name Aenor however is still unknown. In English the name is sometimes connected to Elena, Ellen or Elaine (->Helen, Helene) as well. It could be connected to the Greek eleos meaning "compassion" as well. In medieval Arabic the similar sounding name "Allahu Nuri" (Allahu Nooree) means "God is my light". The modern version is Nurullah (Noorullah) which means "light of God". The similar Hebrew name Eliora is a feminine form of Elior, meaning "my God is light". More recently J. R. R. Tolkien created an alternative meaning for this name using his made up Elvish language Quenya. In his novel The Lord of the Rings Elanor means "sun-star" (el: star, and anor: sun), and is the name of a golden five-pointed flower that grows in the woods of Lothlórien and the given name of a golden-haired child. There are also many variants in other languages.
Eleonóra Hungarian, Slovak
Eleonora Polish, Swedish
Several queens are known as Queen Eleanor, most notably Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elinor Fair, American actress
Eleanor Marx, writer and daughter of Karl Marx
Eleanor Roosevelt, the activist, diplomat, and wife and First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Rigby, the fictional titular subject of a 1966 song by The Beatles; although she is fictional, a gravestone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby exists in a church in the band's birthplace of Liverpool
Elinor Dashwood, the heroine of Jane Austen's popular novel, Sense and Sensibility
Franz Ferdinand have recently released a song titled 'Eleanor Put Your Boots On'.
Eleanor is also the codename for the legendary Mustangs seen in both versions of the film Gone in 60 Seconds: in the original 1974 version, Eleanor is a 1973 Mach 1 coupe, while in the 2000 remake, Eleanor is a modified 1967 Shelby GT500.



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