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Geoffrey

[ jef-ree ]

noun

  1. a male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”


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Example Sentences

You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

Geoffrey Robertson and Amal Clooney helped Greece fight for the return of the Elgin Marbles.

Geoffrey Robertson QC has provided legal advice to the Greek government.

“In early 19th-century China, pictures of beautiful women have very narrow eyes,” adds Geoffrey Jones.

Her finance minister, Geoffrey Howe, resigned over the issue.

One-third of the geld was paid to Geoffrey de Coutances, bishop of Exeter, who threw up the earthworks of the castle.

Geoffrey King, who wrote in 1696, gives the first reliable statistics about the state of the country.

But Sir Geoffrey's life was preserved by the interest of a friend, who possessed influence in the councils of Oliver.

Sir Geoffrey has his opinions on many points, which have differed, and probably do still differ, from mine.

He shook himself rather roughly free from the hands of Sir Geoffrey Peveril; but it was not to draw his sword.

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