Genevieve
noun
Saint, a.d. 422–512, French nun: patron saint of Paris.
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Genevieve
American
[jen-uh-veev]
/ ˈdʒɛn əˌviv /
French
Geneviève
noun
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Saint, a.d. 422–512, French nun: patron saint of Paris.
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a female given name.
Geneviève
British
/ ˈdʒɛnɪˌviːv, ʒənvjɛv /
noun
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“A year from now, I hope we’ll have multiple FDA-approved psychedelic therapies so patients can safely access treatment under the care of trained medical professionals,” Genevieve Jurvetson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Steve and Genevieve Jurvetson, a board member of the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative, attended the president’s April signing ceremony at the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The scene kept returning to Bill Griffin, the managing partner of Pace’s L.A. gallery, as he and senior director Genevieve Day organized the exhibition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Tropical swells generated by Hurricanes Elida, Fausto and Genevieve off Mexico have been slamming the shore for two weeks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
His wife, Genevieve, and his friend Bill Buck were so concerned about his sudden attacks of sleep that they chauffeured him everywhere.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Plus, Sherman-Palladino and Palladino were amenable to her perspective on Geneviève, an overburdened, passionate woman with a messy personal life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.
From BBC ● May 31, 2024
This article was written in collaboration with Geneviève Masson, a sports nutritionist who advises high performance athletes at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific and teaches at Langara College in Vancouver.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023
“People with disabilities often lack confidence in themselves and think of themselves as excluded from all these events,” said the minister, Geneviève Darrieussecq.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
The dancing-club was a bal musette in the Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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