Marianne

[mair-ee-an, mar-]

noun

1. the French Republic, personified as a woman.

2. a female given name.

Marianne

/ marjan /

noun

1. a female figure personifying the French republic after the Revolution (1789)

Example Sentences

"They can't say how they're feeling and they can be quite good at masking how they're feeling," explained Marianne Paisley, a researcher from the University of Sussex who is studying great ape wellbeing.

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"We're trying to keep people in the farming game," Marianne Ward, the WFP's country director for Syria, said.

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In a Tuesday op-ed for Time, economists Marianne Cooper and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman underlined the point that “Black women are overrepresented in precarious jobs characterized by low wages, little security, and few benefits and underrepresented in the highest paying careers.”

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She hopes a quote by American author Marianne Williamson - about how pain can "burn you up and destroy you or burn you up and redeem you" - will help the process.

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During the City Council meeting, Malibu Mayor Marianne Riggins asked for a report of crimes committed in fire-affected areas in response to safety concerns raised by residents.

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