Hildegarde
noun
a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”
Hildegard
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a variation of
Hildegarde.
Example Sentences
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In 1971, Germany's Hildegard Falck, external had become the first woman to break the two-minute barrier.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s fascinating “Hildegard,” which had its New York debut at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on Friday, explores the life and mind of the 12th-century Benedictine abbess, visionary and composer Hildegard von Bingen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
Jane took over the gallery with Kallir’s business partner, Hildegard Bachert, after Kallir’s death in 1978, and ran it for 40 years before launching the Kallir Research Institute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
Hildegard Müller told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in comments published Saturday the tariffs would not help the European and German auto industries and instead “could quickly have a negative effect in a trade conflict.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
That same day, in a posh Berlin neighborhood near the Ministry of Public En-lightenment and Propaganda, Joseph and Magda Goebbels welcomed a new daughter into the world—a little brown-haired girl they named Hildegard.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
