Elli

[el-ee]

noun

Scandinavian Mythology.

1. an old woman, a personification of old age, who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Elli¹

< Icelandic elli, literally, old age. eld

Example Sentences

Ellis poses in a leather jacket studded with the words Wolf Alice.

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“It’s a wonderful license of expression in which you can kind of do whatever you want,” reflects Ellis on the videos.

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The ongoing strikes are part of a “continuing drumbeat” in the administration’s escalating war on drug gangs, says Evan Ellis, a Latin America expert at the U.S.

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He has said his family, immigrants from Europe, took the name “Ellison” after Ellis Island.

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“Movements don’t pack up and go home,” the political analyst John Ellis observed in January.

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