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cyril

/ˈsɪɹəl/

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What does cyril mean?

proper noun

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek; best known for a ninth century missionary to the Slavs.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsɪɹəl/

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“I suppose, then, if you have never heard of Godfrey Staunton, you don’t know Cyril Overton either?”
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
(To CYRIL and FLORIAN) And you, young ladies, will you please to pray King Hildebrand to set me free again?
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
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“Yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladímirovich, hearing how ill he is.”
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600
Thurston: That Cyril, The monk, is a very respectable fighter.
Adam Lindsay GordonPoems by Adam Lindsay GordonProject Gutenberg ebook #258
The library contained many thousands of volumes of books, but was destroyed by Cyril; a girl in charge of the library by the name of Hypatia was brutally killed and the flesh was scraped from her bones with sea shells.
Charles A. (Charles Alexander) OliverABC's of ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1331