Celia

American  

[seel-yuh] / ˈsil yə /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Cecilia.

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Example Sentences

Featuring Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub, Anna Ziegler’s new take on the Greek tragedy at the Public Theater is a sharp, funny blend of the contemporary and the classical.

From The Wall Street Journal

Celia Keenan-Bolger portrays a modified version of a traditional Greek chorus, here a 40-year-old pregnant woman named Dicey who spots a younger woman across the aisle reading the titular tragedy—not your average plane reading: “‘I’m sorry,’ I say—because the only way I can start a conversation is to apologize for my entire existence—but can I ask why you’re reading that?”

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, I’m sitting in the passenger seat of my sister Celia’s car, waiting for our cousin Avery to come outside.

From Literature

“She already knows we’re here,” Celia says without looking up from the list of Spanish vocabulary words she’s reviewing.

From Literature

Celia tucks a strand of her wavy light brown hair behind one ear and sighs.

From Literature