Hermione
Americannoun
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the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
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a female given name.
Example Sentences
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McLaughlin will star as the titular wizard opposite Stanton as Hermione Granger and Stout as Ron Weasley.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Twenty-five of the pieces were donated by British art historian Hermione Waterfield and the rest by South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
Twenty-five other items were donated by British art historian Hermione Waterfield, who established the Tribal Art Department at Christie’s in 1971.
From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025
Linke compared the structures to the small magical handbag of Hermione Granger, a fictional character in the “Harry Potter” series, saying that they can “store huge amounts of gas in a tiny volume.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
Hermione was immediately cleared to continue with Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Herbology, Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, and Potions, and shot off to a first-period Ancient Runes class without further ado.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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