Ethel

[eth-uhl]

noun

1. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”

Example Sentences

Ethel Caterham, who lives in a care home in Lightwater, Surrey, became the oldest living person in April following the death of Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canbarro Lucas aged 116.

From BBC

When Tom and Ethel Bradley moved with their two young daughters into a modest three-bedroom home in Leimert Park in 1950, Black people were restricted from buying houses in the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times

Tom and Ethel explained to their children that, “unless people understood and lived with you, they would only look at you racially and not as a person,” said Lorraine.

From Los Angeles Times

Somebody put rosary beads in his hands, and his wife, Ethel, mother of his 11 children, touched ice cubes to his cheek.

From Los Angeles Times

Doris Ludlam, 80, Bridget Bourke, 88, Irene Crookes, 79, and Ethel Hall, 86, were being treated on orthopaedic wards where Campbell worked in Leeds in 2002 and developed unexplained hypoglycaemia.

From BBC