Eli

[ ee-lahy ]

noun

1. a Hebrew judge and priest. 1 Samuel 1–4.
2. Also El·ie [] a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “height.”

Eli

/ ˈiːlaɪ /

noun

1. Old Testament the highest priest at Shiloh and teacher of Samuel (I Samuel 1–3)

Example Sentences

Eli says something very interesting during his conversation with Alicia: “They [voters] want people who are open-minded.”

From The Daily Beast

His campaign manager, Eli Gold, sees this as an opportunity.

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He studied at the Bnei David yeshiva, built as part of the Eli settlement deep inside the occupied West Bank.

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These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.

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Has it not been vividly described in all its horror by Eli Wiesel and others?

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But there is not much recorded of him until twenty years after the death of Eli, who lived to be ninety.

From Project Gutenberg

Eli gave Raoul one final nod, as if he knew what Raoul had been thinking, and let the tent flap fall behind him.

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More invitations to Eli's room, more liquor ladled out and more money handed around to the company.

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Alfred argued with the mother that he had accepted money from Eli and was in honor bound to work it out.

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Again the crowd was too large for the courthouse; again Eli made friends who detained him after the departure of the troupe.

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