Josephine
Americannoun
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Empress Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
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a female given name: derived from Joseph.
noun
Example Sentences
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Tony serves as chief executive while Josephine handpicks much of the store’s merchandise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
The inquiry also heard evidence from crisis care practitioner nurse and, from February 2022, team leader Josephine Baker, who visited Calocane on 23 June 2020, between his two spells at Highbury Hospital that year.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
The research was led by Josephine Nielsen, a Master's student in geoscience.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
“Because she won’t leave Grandma Josephine and Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George.”
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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