Lillian

Or Lil·i·an

[lil-ee-uhn]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

In May, surrogacy agency owner Lillian Markowitz was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud.

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Soon she is pregnant with Lillian, later nicknamed “Gish” for the silent film actor, and motherhood overwhelms her.

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“Now remember,” Lillian advises, “if you walk and talk American, they’ll think you were born here.”

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Jasmine stays at a Florida boarding house run by Lillian, who calls her new tenant Jazzy and helps her with bus fare to New York City.

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Lillian Carranza — who has sued the department for calling out questionably counted crime statistics and misogyny, and also been sued over her supervision of others — declined to discuss Bell’s case, but said that, in general, after 36 years on the job, “I do not see the department doing anything to protect employees who are whistleblowers or report misconduct.”

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