Emily

American  

[em-uh-lee] / ˈɛm ə li /

Or Emilie

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “industrious.”

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Example Sentences

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, David, and special guest Stephen Colbert answer listeners’ conundrums of all kinds: the meaningful, the trivial, and the delightfully absurd.

From Slate

“This is really bringing to light something that’s going on in homes across the country,” said Emily Feinstein, executive vice president of the nonprofit Partnership to End Addiction.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is a problem you’d expect to find with an intergenerational program,” said Emily Ekins, polling director at the Cato Institute, a libertarian public-policy think tank.

From MarketWatch

And no wonder: Many readers found the test—based on the newest edition of “Emily Post’s Business Etiquette”—a tough one.

From The Wall Street Journal

Emily, with “The Smashing Machine,” you play Dawn Staples, girlfriend to Mark Kerr, who was a pioneer in the field of MMA fighting.

From Los Angeles Times