Definition of "Carolyn"

Carolyn

/ˈkɛɹəlɪn/

proper noun
1. A female given name from the Germanic languages, a variant of Caroline used since the 19th century.
  Quotations
  He never called me "Carolyn" until long after I'd stopped studying with him. It was always "Caroline", as in his Jardin aux Lilas. When at Juilliard he first learned my name, he snorted "How affected!" I was surprised. "Carolyn" affected? "Caroline" not? I'd always thought it was the other way around.
  2007, Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham, page 101