Alma

[al-muh, al-mah]

noun

1. a town in southeastern Quebec, in southeastern Canada.

2. a first name: from a Latin word meaning “kind.”

Example Sentences

Julia Roberts, in a role that seems to have been written for someone a generation younger, is a philosophy professor named Alma who appears to be both a venerated faculty member and yet so junior that she is just now coming up for tenure consideration.

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After a long, wine-soaked party at Alma and Frederik’s, Hank walks Maggie home.

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Yet the movie is about Alma, their go-between.

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The script, by Nora Garrett, in her first credit as a screenwriter, clumsily avoids the central issue of what happened to Maggie and instead rambles off in several directions before it gets back to the central drama, which is the conflict between her and her mentor, Alma.

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After graduating in 1999, the former cheerleader had little to cheer over the next two decades, as he watched his alma mater suffer through 21 losing seasons.

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