Agnes

[ag-nis]

noun

1. Saint, a.d. 292?–304?, Roman Catholic child martyr.

2. a first name: from a Greek word meaning “chaste.”

Agnes

/ ˈæɡnɪs /

noun

1. Saint. ?292–?304 _ad , Christian child martyr under Diocletian. Feast day: Jan 21

Example Sentences

The film’s title is not inaccurate, but like Agnès Varda’s best documentaries, the real subject lies beneath.

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Called Agnes here, as she was in her father’s will, she is played by Jessie Buckley in a performance that tips over the edge from heartfelt into cloying, as does the film.

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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.

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Co-written by Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, this tonally faithful adaptation of O’Farrell’s florid 2020 novel of the same name stars Paul Mescal as Will — the name he goes by here — and Jessie Buckley as his wife, Agnes, pronounced Ahn-yes, although the real person was more commonly called Anne Hathaway.

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Previous fictions have deemed Agnes a cradle robber or a shrew or the Bard’s secret co-writer.

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