Josephine

[ joh-zuh-feen, -suh- ]

noun

1. Empress Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
2. a female given name: derived from Joseph.

Josephine

/ ˈdʒəʊzəˌfiːn /

noun

1. Josephine, Empress17631814FFrenchMISC: wife of Napoleon Empress, previous name Joséphine de Beauharnais; real name Marie Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie. 1763–1814, empress of France as wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (1796–1809)

Example Sentences

Later, the 18-year-old, from Leatherhead, Surrey, and Callum Dunne, 15, from Southend, Essex, stuffed a lit firework through the letterbox of 88-year-old Josephine Smith's home, starting a fire that killed her.

From BBC

A lot of Americans tune out politics until the tail end of an election year and then "just go with the most recent thing they remember", said Abraham Josephine Riesman, a freelance journalist and author of the book Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America.

From BBC

When model Josephine Lee, known online as Princess Gollum, arrived in Studio City for a skincare brand photo shoot in November 2021, she had all her signature accessories in tow.

From Los Angeles Times

And then there’s Josephine, the seventeen-year-old wunderkind-slash-hacker whose real mission is to turn Evan into a fully-fledged human being.

From Salon

In Miami, for example, Overtown was the traditional heart of the city’s Black community, with jazz clubs hosting the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker, and Nat King Cole.

From Slate