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Esmeralda means "emerald" in most Iberian languages, and is somewhat common as a female given name.
Additionally, Esmeralda may refer to:
Places
- Esmeralda, Cuba
- Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
- Esmeralda Island, Chile
- Esmeralda Municipality, a municipality in Oruro Department, Bolivia
- Esmeralda, Chile, a town in Chile
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Esméralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), a character in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- Esmeralda (1905 film)
- Esmeralda (1922 film)
- La Esmeralda (ballet), an 1844 ballet
- La Esmeralda (opera), a French opera by Louise Bertin
- Esmeralda (opera), an 1883 English opera by Arthur Goring Thomas
- Esmeralda (Dargomyzhsky), an 1847 opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Television
- Esmeralda (telenovela), a Mexican telenovela
- Esmeralda (Cro character)
- Esmeralda (Venezuela), a program broadcast by Venevisión
- Esmeralda (Brazil), a program on Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão
- Esmeralda, a character from Bewitched
- Esmeralda, a secondary villain character in the Anime Saint October.
Other popular arts
- Esmeralda (1915 film), a film based on an 1880s play of the same name
- Esmeralda (Fur Fighters), a character from Fur Fighters
- "Esmeralda", a poem by Nikos Kavvadias
- Esmeralda, a character from Doctor Faustus
- Esmerelda Weatherwax, a Discworld character
- Esmeralda, servant of Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes
- Esmeralda, a minor character in Suikoden I
Ships
- Esmeralda (nau), a Portuguese carrack that sunk in 1503, the earliest ship found to date from Europe’s Age of Discovery
- Esmeralda (1791), a Spanish frigate captured by Chile in 1820
- Esmeralda (1855), a wooden steam corvette sunk during the War of the Pacific
- Esmerelda (sternwheeler), a steamboat of the Colorado River
- Esmeralda (1884) or Japanese cruiser Izumi, purchased by Japan in 1894
- Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1895), a cruiser
- Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1944), ex-HMCS Glace Bay (K414)
- Esmeralda (BE-43), a training ship of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1953
Other uses
- Esmeralda (plant), a genus of orchids
- Esmeralda (beetle), a genus of beetles
- Esmeralda Open, a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the 1940s
- Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", educational institution for plastic arts
- Esmeralda language, an extinct language from Ecuador
People with the given name
- Esmeralda Devlin (born 1971), British stage and costume designer
- Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (born 1959), Brazilian track and field athlete
- Esmeralda Pimentel (born 1989), Mexican actress
- Esmeralda Santiago (born 1948), Puerto Rican author and actress
- Esmeralda Yaniche (born 1991), Venezuelan model and pageant titleholder
See also
- Santa Esmeralda, a 1970s musical group
- Miss Esmeralda, an 1887 Victorian burlesque on Victor Hugo's work, with music by Meyer Lutz and a libretto by Fred Leslie
- La Esmeralda (disambiguation)
- Esmeralda Avenue (disambiguation)
- Esmeraldas (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Esmeralda"
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