Edith

American  

[ee-dith] / ˈi dɪθ /

Or Edithe

noun

1. a female given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “war.”

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Example Sentences

She left the candlesticks to her daughter, who left them to my grandmother Edith, rather than Edith’s younger sister, Ethel.

From MarketWatch

Despite the fighting, Edith and Ethel talked to each other every day on the phone and never let their disputes interrupt that.

From MarketWatch

In an essay published by the New York Times in 1977, she wrote: “I come from a long line of women, most of them more Edith Bunker than Betty Friedan, who never knew they were unfulfilled…. They took pride in a clean, comfortable home and satisfaction in serving a good meal because no one had explained that the only work worth doing is that for which you get paid.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Stein and Woolf met just once, at the London home of Edith Sitwell in 1926.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is covered almost entirely in 115,000 hand-crafted architectural tiles created by ceramicist Edith Heath in 1969.

From Los Angeles Times