Elinor

[el-uh-ner, -nawr]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Helen.

Example Sentences

At the start of the hearings at The Hague in April, the UN's Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs Elinor Hammarskjöld told the court that, as the occupying power in the West Bank and Gaza, Israel's obligations entailed "allowing and facilitating all relevant United Nations entities to carry out their activities for the benefit of the local population".

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"We want those seeds to be back out in the landscape," explained Dr Elinor Breman from the MSB, who's been showing Cate Blanchett the team's work.

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“It,” employed in this way, first appeared in a 1927 novella by Elinor Glyn, which became a silent film starring the red-haired flapper Clara Bow, arguably history’s first “It Girl.”

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"I turned on my phone after school today and all I got was rugby social media and I was loving it," added Elinor, a flanker in the team.

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Elinor Lester, 13, said younger campers at Camp Mystic were bunked in cabins closer to the riverbank and those were the first to flood.

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