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  • Genevieve
    Genevieve
    noun
    Saint, a.d. 422–512, French nun: patron saint of Paris.
  • Geneviève
    Geneviève
    noun
    Saint. ?422–?512 ad , French nun; patron saint of Paris. Feast day: Jan 3

Genevieve

American  
[jen-uh-veev] / ˈdʒɛn əˌviv /
French Geneviève

noun

  1. Saint, a.d. 422–512, French nun: patron saint of Paris.

  2. a female given name.


Geneviève British  
/ ˈdʒɛnɪˌviːv, ʒənvjɛv /

noun

  1. Saint. ?422–?512 ad , French nun; patron saint of Paris. Feast day: Jan 3

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Genevieve McDonald, a former political director for Platner’s campaign who resigned after his Reddit posts became public, said the campaign failed to conduct an adequate vetting operation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

"It's very likely that something would have happened and Genevieve wouldn't have died," he says.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

But University of Ottawa public policy expert Genevieve Tellier told AFP she expects the deficit to be "very large."

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

“We had to straddle the line between the brashness and sometimes crude nature of kitchen culture,” says Matthew Bamberg-Johnson, the co-artistic director of Speakeasy Society with Genevieve Gearhart.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Then, for fear that its brief relapse into prose might have hardened the tyrant’s heart, it launched out breathlessly into Genevieve, tor the third time.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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