Adele

Adele

a feminine name

Origin of Adele

French Adèle

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Noun

(plural adeles)

(mathematics) A member of a self-dual topological ring built on the field of rational numbers (or, more generally, any algebraic number field), and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.

Origin

Short for additive idele; coined by André Weil.

Proper noun

(plural Adeles)

A female given name.

Origin

Anglicized form of Adèle, the French equivalent of Adela.

Proper noun

A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.

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Adele - Having sold over 200,000 copies of her sophomore album 21 in the first week of its release, British singing sensation Adele is terrified of seagulls.
Adele Silva (Kelly Windsor): Of all the Emmerdale actresses, she's been with the series the longest since starting her time on the soap as a young girl.
Jason lived with his grandmother Adele Stackhouse after the death of his parents, but moved out at eighteen to return to the home his parents had lived in.
"Adele tempted me: she kept on telling me to buy it," returned Pierre.
Her daughter Adele (1796-1849) seems to have had a brave, tender and unsatisfied heart, and lavished on her brother an affection he sorely tried.

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