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Candace
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candace
English
Alternative forms
en Candice
Etymology
From en la Candacē, from en grc Κανδάκη, from en xmr 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 kandakə, a hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (northern Sudan).
Pronunciation
female given name en /ˈkæn.dɪs/
Proper noun
s
en female Ancient Greek.
Acts 8 27–28 clxv 1 He aroſe and went on / and beholde a man off ethiopia which was gelded / and of grete auctoꝛite with Candace qune of the ethiopians / which had the rule off all her treaſure / cam to Ieruſalem foꝛ to pꝛaye.
en AJ Willingham Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they’re changing the transportation game w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/10/us/truckers-women-tiktok-social-media-trnd 2021-04-10 Candace Rivers’ involvement with trucking began, fittingly, on Interstate 20 not far from her hometown of Oxford, Alabama. https://web.archive.org/web/20260424161721/https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/10/us/truckers-women-tiktok-social-media-trnd/ 24 April 2026
Noun
en candace a Nubian queen.
en 2012 Hassan B. Abdelwahab Influence (Supremacy) of Religion on Sudan's Foreign Policy 1467883182 Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns
Translations
female given name
Bulgarian: bg Кандакия f
Latin: la Candace
Polish: pl Kandake