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What does Gretchen mean?

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

Proper noun
  1. A female given name of German origin; a pet form of Margaret.
  2. Heroine of the play Faust by Goethe.
Name
  1. A female given name of German origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A pearl. Also see Margot, Marguerite, Megan.
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As Gretchen elaborated, Ikiri felt a surge of anger, jealousy, and a twinge of loss.
Never in his life before had he been so downhearted Gretchen observed his melancholy.
Gretchen swallowed her sigh of disappointment and looked at her dancing partner.
The authors, Gretchen Peters and Aleem Agha, no ages given, must have cut their teeth writing bodice-rippers for the pulp market.
While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment.
We all know, and spend our lives trying to avoid, people like Jimmy and Gretchen.

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