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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Example Sentences

Edith Wharton is a moth-eaten gown in the musty attic of American literature.

From The Wall Street Journal

If I had misjudged Edith Wharton, I wondered, what else might I be wrong about?

From The Wall Street Journal

Before joining WSJ, Edith worked as a competition reporter for Politico Europe.

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Sometimes, the clues are viewed in kind of negative fashion: An engraving found on an ancient bronze tablet in southern Italy is explained by Edith Hall—specialist in Greek literature and cultural history at Durham University—as having banned female gladiators.

From The Wall Street Journal

A chance meeting with Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and lauded for his designs for the Vanderbilt family, led Roth to Hunt’s firm in New York and then to that of the architect Ogden Codman Jr., a tastemaking friend of Edith Wharton.

From The Wall Street Journal