Adelaide (disambiguation)

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Adelaide is the English form of a Germanic given name, from Old High German Adalheidis "nobility".

The name Addie is a diminutive of Adelaide. French: Adélaïde or Adélaide; the modern German form is Adelheid. Heidi, a nickname for Adelheid, became internationally popular on its own as a result of Johanna Spyri's novel Heidi (1881).

people

• Adelaide of Italy (Saint Adelaide), wife of Otto the Great (d. 999)
• Adelaide of Aquitaine (d. 1004)
• Adelaide del Vasto (d. 1118)
• Adélaide de Maurienne (1092–1154)
• Adelaide of Holland (1230–1284)
• Louise Marie Adelaide Eugènie d'Orléans (1777–1847)
• Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier (1777–1849)
• Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (1792–1849)
• Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864)
• Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833–1897)
• Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835–1900)
• Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910)
• Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947)
• Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1894–1924)
• Archduchess Adelheid of Austria (1914–1971)

toponyms

• Adelaide, South Australia
  • City of Adelaide - local government area of South Australia
  • Division of Adelaide - electorate in federal parliament of Australia
  • Electoral district of Adelaide - electorate in state parliament of South Australia
• Adelaide, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Adelaide Township, Bowman County, North Dakota, United States
• Adelaide, Ontario, Canada
• Adelaide Peninsula, Nunavut
• The Adelaide River and the township of the same name, Australia
• Adelaide (Northern Ireland) railway station
• Adelaide Place in Dundee, Scotland
• Adelaide Crescent - Brighton, England

ships

• Adelaide class frigate - Class of Australian naval vessel
• HMAS Adelaide - One of several Australian naval vessels

music

• Adelaide (Beethoven), by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Adélaïde Concerto, falsely attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, actually by Marius Casadesus
• "Adelaide", song by Old 97's
• "Adelaide", song by Frank Loesser
• "Adelaide", song by Ben Folds
• "Adelaide", song by Anberlin
• "Adelaide", song by Aquarium
• Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs, Ravel's 1912 ballet version of his Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
• Adelaide Opera by the 18th Century composer, Nicola Porpora
• Adelaide (opera), by Antonio Sartorio