Joan of Arc

American  

[ahrk] / ɑrk /

noun

1. Saint the Maid of Orléans, 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.

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Joan of Arc British  

noun

1. Saint known as the Maid of Orléans; French name Jeanne d'Arc. ?1412–31, French national heroine, who led the army that relieved Orléans in the Hundred Years' War, enabling Charles VII to be crowned at Reims (1429). After being captured (1430), she was burnt at the stake as a heretic. She was canonized in 1920. Feast day: May 30

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Joan of Arc Cultural  

1. A French military leader of the fifteenth century, a national heroine who at the age of seventeen took up arms to establish the rightful king on the French throne. She claimed to have heard God speak to her in voices. These claims eventually led to her trial for heresy and her execution by burning at the stake. Joan of Arc is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Example Sentences

“When I was fighting, even back then I felt like I was connected to Joan of Arc and all of these women who’ve been persecuted all throughout time,” she said.

From Washington Post

They moved 80 miles away to Orléans, a small city that embraces another teenage girl, Joan of Arc, as its savior.

From Salon

Le Pen had earlier laid a wreath at the statue in Paris of Joan of Arc, whom her party uses as a nationalist symbol, warning of “total chaos” if Macron is re-elected.

From Reuters

Thus a two-sided, Japanese-style decorative screen portrays not such customary subjects as flowers or birds, but rather the imprisoned Joan of Arc, heroine of both France and the Catholic church in which Nakashima was raised.

From Washington Post

Mr Atkin's photographs capture light that was emitted from stars before William the Conqueror, Joan of Arc and before the Vikings discovered Greenland.

From BBC