Vivian

[viv-ee-uhn]

noun

1. Arthurian Legend.,  Also Vivien an enchantress, the mistress of Merlin: known as the Lady of the Lake.

2. Also Vivien, Vivienne a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “alive.”

Vivian

/ ˈvɪvɪən /

noun

1. (in Arthurian legend) the mistress of Merlin, sometimes identified with the Lady of the Lake

Example Sentences

"What struck me first, after the proclamation of the results, was the silence - graveyard silence," said Vivian Muma, in the northern city of Bamenda.

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Ayad Akhtar’s “McNeal,” which had its premiere last year at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in a production starring Robert Downey Jr., failed precisely because it abdicated this responsibility.

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While the staging was first seen at City Center, its transfer to the Vivian Beaumont Theater marks the debut of Lear DeBessonet, who directed the show, as the new artistic leader of Lincoln Center Theater—one of the most high-profile, and high-stakes, positions in the New York theater.

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“I told her, if it really was him wouldn’t you think that he’d be sending you money, not the other way around,” Vivian said.

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What Vivian didn’t realize at the time was that the scammer had been pushing her mother to sell her Harbor City condominium, which she’d owned since 1999.

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