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Edith

American  
[ee-dith] / ˈi dɪθ /
Or Edithe

noun

  1. a female given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “war.”


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Her mother Edith, a nurse, brought the siblings up in Stockwell, south London.

From BBC

He also married his childhood friend Edith Carow, with whom he started a second family that would eventually include five more children.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We DJed at the Scottish Baftas one year, where Edith Bowman usually played before us for about 20 minutes, " says Lynne.

From BBC

“Peter Arnett was one of the greatest war correspondents of his generation — intrepid, fearless, and a beautiful writer and storyteller. His reporting in print and on camera will remain a legacy for aspiring journalists and historians for generations to come,” said Edith Lederer, who was a fellow AP war correspondent in Vietnam in 1972 and 1973 and is now AP’s chief correspondent at the United Nations.

From Los Angeles Times

Anti-discrimination worker Edith Brutman was among those killed at the beach, according to her Jewish community service organisation, B'nai B'rith NSW, cited by the Sydney Morning Herald.

From Barron's