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Karen
1[ kuh-ren ]
noun
- a group of people of eastern and southern Myanmar (Burma).
- one of these people.
- the language of the Karen, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan family.
adjective
- of or relating to the Karen people or their language.
Karen
2[ kar-uhn, kahr- ]
noun
- Also Karin. a first name, form of Katherine.
- Informal: Disparaging.
- a white, usually middle-class woman who is rude, demanding, and aggressive toward other people, particularly customer service workers.
- a person acting in an aggressive, entitled, rude way:
He went full Karen on the poor store manager and threatened to get her fired.
Karen
/ əˈɛ /
noun
- -rens-ren a member of a Thai people of Myanmar
- the language of this people, probably related to Thai and belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family
Example Sentences
Shortly after half five in the morning Nigel Farage turned up, as did the Reform candidate Sarah Pochin and the Labour candidate Karen Shore – and by that point the facial expressions told the story.
Karen Carter, 65, was found by her friend lying near her car with stab wounds in the village of Trémolat in the Dordogne on Tuesday evening, the state prosecutor said.
On Tuesday, with the city deep in a budget crisis, Rodriguez pleaded for Mayor Karen Bass not to get rid of the department.
With crime numbers continuing to trend downward, McDonnell has received public support from Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file officers.
But even as they denounced those reductions, the union leaders secured four years of pay raises for the city’s 3,300 firefighters through negotiations with Mayor Karen Bass.
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