Nora

American  

[nawr-uh, nohr-uh] / ˈnɔr ə, ˈnoʊr ə /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Honora.

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Example Sentences

Everything from Parmesan cheese rinds to a quarter can of coconut milk is fair game for one of Nora Schlesinger’s “leftover nights,” in which all four members of her family can wind up eating a different meal.

From The Wall Street Journal

In director Joachim Trier’s latest film in theaters, two sisters, Agnes and Nora, reunite with their estranged film-director father, who hopes to make a movie with Nora as the lead.

From The Wall Street Journal

Also, I read a lot of Nora Ephron, and I don’t know if people remember her book about journalism called “Scribble Scribble”? But she had a piece about the New York Post in the early ’60s that really informed a lot of my ideas about what newspaper life would have been for Maddie Schwartz in the early ’60s.

From Salon

“Our position is that the shroud offers evidence of the resurrection, but not proof,” said Nora Creech, a shroud scholar who helped organize the exhibit.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps it is the element of chaos in acting, reminiscent of her own “messy” years, that at once attracts and tests Reinsve, who says she was the one who devised Nora’s description of the craft’s appeal that we see in the film: “When you go out on stage, it’s so counterintuitive,” the character, beset with stage fright, explains.

From Los Angeles Times