Gillian

American  

[jil-ee-uhn, -yuhn] / ˈdʒɪl i ən, -yən /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Juliana.

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Example Sentences

“We don’t need to generate technophobic fears of a digital future where our memories will be distorted — our memories can already be distorted very effectively by nondigital means,” memory scientists Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy wrote in “Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember,” published earlier this year.

From Los Angeles Times

Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey‘s Western action-drama series, “The Abandons,” may have missed you, getting lost in the streaming shuffle after its December 4 release on Netflix — despite reaching #4 on the platform’s Global Top 10 — but its story of two opposing matriarchs going claws-out in the 1850s Wild/Old West, is the perfect show to binge on a day spent shirking all those New Year’s resolutions.

From Salon

Having achieved so much within wrestling, Cena could "just come in and be a wrestler and walk out", adds Dr Gillian Brooks, associate professor in marketing at King's Business School, but instead she says he built a personal brand that comes across as real.

From BBC

The secondary in the York suburb of Clifton only began using the pouches in November, but headteacher Gillian Mills says there has been an "immediate shift" in students' focus.

From BBC

Admittedly, creator Kurt Sutter has given the tropes a bit of a spin, making two women — played by Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey — adversarial matriarchal leads, but the nuts and bolts come right off the shelf.

From Los Angeles Times