Elizabeth

[ih-liz-uh-buhth]

noun

1. Douay Bible.,  Elisabeth.

2. Elizaveta Petrovna, 1709–62, empress of Russia 1741–62 (daughter of Peter the Great).

3. Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luise, Princess of WiedCarmen Sylva, 1843–1916, queen of Romania 1881–1914 and author.

4. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother), 1900–2002, queen consort of George VI of Great Britain (mother of Elizabeth II).

5. Saint, 1207–31, Hungarian princess and religious mystic.

6. a city in NE New Jersey.

7. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “oath of God.”

Elizabeth

¹

/ ɪˈlɪzəbəθ /

noun

1. New Testament the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8

2. pen name Carmen Sylva. 1843–1916, queen of Romania (1881–1914) and author

3. Russian name Yelizaveta Petrovna. 1709–62, empress of Russia (1741–62); daughter of Peter the Great

4. title the Queen Mother ; original name Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. 1900–2002, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52) as the wife of George VI; mother of Elizabeth II

Elizabeth

²

/ ɪˈlɪzəbəθ /

noun

1. a city in NE New Jersey, on Newark Bay. Pop: 123 215 (2003 est)

2. a town in SE South Australia, part of Adelaide. Pop: 26 428 (2006)

Example Sentences

His son, Jack Morgan, was close friends with King George VI, the father to the late Queen Elizabeth II and grandfather to Charles, as Dimon recounted.

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Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”

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Long before Jane Austen became a global phenomenon, Elizabeth Jenkins wrote the first literary biography of the novelist.

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Elizabeth Peace, a spokesperson for the Department of the Interior, said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Paddington has a close connection with the Royal Family, after the character famously appeared in a sketch with the late Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

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