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Catherine

or Cath·er·yn

[ kath-er-in, kath-rin ]

noun

  1. a female given name.


Catherine

/ ˈkæθrɪn /

noun

  1. Catherine, Saint307FEgyptianRELIGION: martyrRELIGION: saint Saint. died 307 ad , legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded


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Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.

Catherine Lemay is impressed by neither the myth nor the reality when she arrives in Montana in the summer of 1956.

A case study would be your Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.

Catherine kept the boy, at great personal cost to herself, and she is never totally sure she has done the right thing.

Catherine also seems to relish the danger and violence of her job.

Tchaikovsky was always deeply interested in his countrys past, especially in the period of Catherine II.

Fisheries off the Abrolhos, and from St. Catherine's, might perhaps do something towards it.

According to Gothard, Catherine was in all her mistress' secrets and furthered all her schemes.

Mademoiselle Catherine talks for her guests as well as for herself; she asks questions and gives the answers.

There's fine conversation for you; Mademoiselle Catherine's tongue goes nineteen to the dozen.

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