Octavia

[ok-tey-vee-uh]

noun

1. died 11 b.c., sister of Roman emperor Augustus and wife of Marc Anthony.

2. a.d. c42–62, Roman empress, wife of Nero.

3. a female given name.

Octavia

/ ɒkˈteɪvɪə /

noun

1. died 11 _bc , wife of Mark Antony; sister of Augustus

Example Sentences

In its city sprawl and California light, L.A. has fostered legendary writers from Joan Didion to Octavia E. Butler, created countercultural literary communities like the Watts Writers Workshop, and inspired Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.”

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Octavia, in which a gushing party girl falls instantly in love with a blond, sharp-cheeked beau called Jeremy, later became an ITV series.

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A court later heard a graphic account of how he was attacked with bladed weapons after he crashed his Skoda Octavia - which had been fitted with a tracking device - and passed out behind the wheel.

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Translucent curtains are being designed for some of the windows, but won’t be used throughout, and not in the entrance across from “Octavia’s Gaze.”

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A man in his 40s and a secondary school-aged boy, who were in the white Skoda Octavia, sustained serious injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.

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