Hilda

American  

[hil-duh] / ˈhɪl də /

noun

1. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “maid of battle.”

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Example Sentences

In Los Angeles County, cardrooms bring in more than $2 billion in economic activity and generate about 9,000 jobs, according to Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis.

From Los Angeles Times

But even more, it is Kenyon and Hilda’s fundamentally American goodness that gives them the strength to bear Miriam’s burden.

From The Wall Street Journal

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hilda witnesses the crime and is so distraught that her moral certitude temporarily deserts her.

From The Wall Street Journal

Indeed, the story of Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon and Donatello can be read as the story of America in miniature.

From The Wall Street Journal