Amasa

American  

[uh-mey-suh, am-uh-suh] / əˈmeɪ sə, ˈæm ə sə /

noun

1. (in the Bible) the commander of Absalom's army and later of David's army.

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Example Sentences

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021

Amasa spent most of his early years in Florida, but a bookkeeping job took him to Finchburg, Alabama, where he met Harper Lee’s mother, Frances Cunningham Finch.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

Mills said that while researching the book, she talked to people who remembered the sisters’ father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, playing golf in a three-piece suit.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016

It was widely understood that Ms. Lee modeled Atticus on her father, Amasa Coleman “A.C.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2016

Amasa nodded, brightening; it was more like Cosy to make a fellow feel small about his sisters and all his possessions.

From Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 by Various