Sharonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).

発音

• enPR: shă'rən, IPA: /ˈʃæɹən/
• 韻: -æɹən

固有名詞

Sharon

1. A plain in Israel.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:1:

     I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2. A female given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
   • 2025 July 22, “Was Ozzy Osbourne Jewish, or ‘half a heeb’?”, in The Jerusalem Post‎:

     Although the Black Sabbath frontman was raised in the Church of England, his marriage to television personality and manager Sharon Osbourne (Levy), whose father, Don Arden, was Jewish, put Judaism “at the heart of our household,” she told The Jewish Chronicle last year, adding, “Judaism is the only religion I have and the only one I’m comfortable with.”

3. A unisex given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
   • 1927, Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 183:

     My name is Katie Jonas. I was born in Utica. My dad worked on a brickyard. I picked out the name Sharon Falconer while I was a stenographer.

   • 2001, Deborah Cameron, Working With Spoken Discourse, SAGE, →ISBN, page 157:

     The group suggested a number of reasons why a girl might not fit in to their community - for instance, if she wore white socks and had a name like 'Sharon'.

4. Any of a number of places in the US and Canada named after the biblical place.
   1. A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
   2. A town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.
   3. A town and village in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
5. A surname.

使用する際の注意点

• Popular given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.

派生語

• rose of Sharon
• Sharon fruit
• Sharon Springs

関連する語

• Shaz
• Shazza

名詞

Sharon (plural Sharons)

1. (UK, derogatory, slang) A working-class female.
   • 2005, Birgitte Tufte, Jeanette Rasmussen, Lars Bech Christensen, Frontrunners Or Copycats? (page 83), quoting a 17-year-old girl

     'Cos all the Sharons go with the Rocker type of skaters - because I've got friends who are really good friends with Sharons and they are skaters. And you don't hold it against them that they are Sharons and they are rockers.

等位語

• Kev

参考

• Kevin
• Wikipedia article on Ariel Sharon

アナグラム

• Ahrons, Horans, Roshan, SHORAN, rhason