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What does Candide mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Candide? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A novel by Voltaire (in which the protagonist shares his moniker with the title.)
  2. The Operetta of the same name, by Leonard Bernstein.
  3. A naïve and innocent person.
Name
  1. A female given name of French origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Dazzling white.
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A clerk announces that Candide will not be given a proper burial if he doesn't accept the religious practices in vogue at the time.
Upon which Candide carried him to the Anabaptist's stable, and gave him a crust of bread.
After getting over his shock and confusion, Candide regains his optimism when he reaches Venice.
Voltaire's Candide, in which Pangloss takes the place of Mentor, will parody the genre.
But Candide could not be happy without Cunegonde, and he requested to leave that land of paradise in search of his beloved.
Candide points out that the singing gondoliers must be happy.

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