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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A naive, innocent girl or young woman.
  2. n. The role of an ingénue in a dramatic production.
  3. n. An actress playing such a role.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An ingenuous, artless girl or young woman; a woman or girl who displays innocent candor or simplicity; specifically, such a character represented on the stage, or the actress who plays it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of ingenue.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An ingenuous or naïve girl or young woman, or an actress representing such a person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
  2. n. an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
  3. n. the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play

Etymologies

  1. French, feminine of ingénu, guileless, from Latin ingenuus, ingenuous; see ingenuous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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