Josephine
Americannoun
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Empress Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
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a female given name: derived from Joseph.
noun
Example Sentences
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"I saw Messi and Lamine Yamal!" says Josephine about the two team's stars - Argentinian captain Lionel Messi and Spain's teenage winger Yamal.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
His opera “Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine,” a collaboration with director Peter Sellars and poet Claudia Rankine about Josephine Baker, addressed issues of race and inequality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Since I got the news, I hardly eat. I find myself in a different world," Josephine Ngoya, Mundia's mother, told AFP, holding a portrait of her son at his university graduation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Edelweiss” was one of the first English songs Josephine Zhou learned growing up in the 1980s, when China was undergoing economic reforms and opening up to the rest of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
I asked Josephine, who was ordering everyone around in the kitchen.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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