Chimere

Meaning of Chimere

In the hush of an evening sky, the name Chimere—whispered softly as shi-MEER—emerges like a single star at the edge of myth, its syllables unfolding as a gentle invocation of ancient tales. Rooted in the Greek chimaira—a creature of flame and shadow—and reborn through the French chimère, “illusion” or “dreamscape,” this name carries the warm breath of legends and the promise of unseen horizons. Within its graceful cadence lies the poetic alchemy of possibility, conjuring visions of marble arches where Latin verses once danced upon the evening breeze, and of Roman amphitheaters where stories soared on the wings of imagination. Though in Maryland it graced only a handful of newborn daughters in the 1980s—a rare bloom in the cradle of our world—each Chimere shone with singular brightness, her name weaving together the tangible and the transcendent. She is the modern muse, poised between reality and reverie, destined to breathe life into dreams and turn the ephemeral into lasting beauty.

Pronunciation

English

• Pronunced as shi-MEER (/ʃɪˈmɪər/)

• Chimera