Marianne
Americannoun
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the French Republic, personified as a woman.
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a female given name.
noun
Example Sentences
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Marianne used Mother Goose books to teach her mother English.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Switzerland's Marianne Fatton won gold in the women's ski sprint, beating France's Emily Harrop by 2.38sec.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Switzerland's Marianne Fatton added Olympic gold to her world title in the women's sprint event and France's Emily Harrop, who could have competed for Team GB, took silver.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Spain's Oriol Cardona Coll and Switzerland's Marianne Fatton bagged the first two Olympic golds on offer in ski mountaineering in Bormio on Thursday as the event made its debut at the Winter Games.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
It’s 1941, and it doesn’t take her long to discover Hans’s Nazi sympathies, and since Cady is deeply concerned with the plight of the Jews and of her friend Marianne, they begin drifting apart.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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