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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Tony serves as chief executive while Josephine handpicks much of the store’s merchandise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
The research was led by Josephine Nielsen, a Master's student in geoscience.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Josephine Ballon said criminalising such behaviour was the minimum that "we can do, because this also shows that we as a society, we have values, we have rules, we have human decency."
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
“Oh, I go by Joe Cavanaugh for all my business dealings, but around here I’m Josephine Oakley. Gives me an air of mystery, don’t you think?”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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