Carmen

[kahr-muhn, kahr-men]

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noun

Ciudad del Carmen.
a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “song.”

Carmen

[kahr-muhn, kar-men]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an opera (1875) by Georges Bizet.

Carmen

One of the most popular of operas, composed by Georges Bizet, and first produced in the late nineteenth century. The title character is known for manipulating men. One of her victims, a Spanish soldier, arranges for her to escape from jail, but she later abandons him for a bullfighter, and he stabs her. The pieces “Habanera” and “Toreador Song” are well-known excerpts from Carmen.

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Wally Baram was cast to co-star as Carmen, a character she says felt very familiar, in Prime Video’s new college-set comedy “Overcompensating,” created by Benito Skinner.

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Carmen Garcia of El Monte came, but reluctantly.

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In a letter Monday to the family and their attorney, acting field office director Carmen Paniagua of U.S.

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Silvia Del Carmen Castaños was a student in a Laredo, Texas, high school when the budding cineaste submitted a short piece to a community film festival.

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The girl was a year delayed because she had spent most of her short life in a hospital in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, tethered to feeding tubes 24 hours a day.

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