Meredith

[mer-i-dith]

noun

1. George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.

2. James Howard, born 1933, U.S. civil rights advocate and author.

3. Owen, pen name of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl Lytton.

4. Also Meredyth. a male or female given name.

Meredith

/ ˈmɛrɪdɪθ /

noun

1. George . 1828–1909, English novelist and poet. His works, notable for their social satire and analysis of character, include the novels Beauchamp's Career (1876) and The Egoist (1879) and the long tragic poem Modern Love (1862)

Example Sentences

“If strawberries are expensive, I’ll buy apples—there are substitutes,” said Meredith Fowlie, an energy economist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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It’s where segregationists rioted over black Air Force veteran James Meredith’s attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962.

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She described the Primary School, which she started in 2016 with Meredith Liu, a friend and educator who died in 2023, as an effort with “broad and ambitious” scope that didn’t take off.

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Meredith Whitney famously predicted municipal bond defaults totaling “hundreds of billions of dollars” on the show in 2010, which never happened.

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“This is Meredith,” a voice chirps, before Bezucha cuts from black to a shot of the back of a woman’s head, focusing on her hair that’s been tightly wound into a severe bun.

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