Vivian

[ viv-ee-uhn ]

noun

1. Also Vivien. Arthurian Legend. an enchantress, the mistress of Merlin: known as the Lady of the Lake.
2. Also Vivien, Vivienne. a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “alive.”

Vivian

/ ˈvɪvɪən /

noun

1. (in Arthurian legend) the mistress of Merlin, sometimes identified with the Lady of the Lake

Example Sentences

“Vivian, we might leave Taiwan and move back to the US next year,” my mom told me as she helped me get ready for the middle school candlelight dance.

From MIT Technology Review

For Vivian, Anna’s story is a way of proving she is not the “bad journalist” everyone thinks she is.

From Time

The project also requires some scheming on Vivian’s part, because Anna isn’t sure she wants to talk.

From Time

He had his wife, Vivian, running one store and his children — ranging from 15 to 24 years old — stationed at the others.

From Washington Post

Vivian has been getting help since she lost her job due to the pandemic back in May and has now been unable to return to work because she has no child care options due to closures and is a single mother.

From Time

Vivian Lynch felt Whitehead was wrong in construing this as an invasion-of-privacy case.

From The Daily Beast

Vivian Maier is a fairly recent discovery in the genre of street photography.

From The Daily Beast

After Vivian died, I could no longer say what God meant to me.

From The Daily Beast

To me this place is holy and this ritual sacred, but strangely, however close I feel to Vivian, I feel distant from God.

From The Daily Beast

Even so, they may know little about the damage caused to the girl, says Vivian Fouad from the NPC.

From The Daily Beast

Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.

From Project Gutenberg

He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Vivian had hardly spoken when the sharp little vibration of her door-bell was heard in the hall.

From Project Gutenberg

The two were standing together before the fire; Bernard watched Mrs. Vivian close the door softly behind her.

From Project Gutenberg

Blanche sat there with her little excited, yet innocent—too innocent—stare; her eyes followed Mrs. Vivian's.

From Project Gutenberg