Moneta

American  

[moh-ney-tuh, maw-ne-tah] / moʊˈneɪ tə, mɔˈnɛ tɑ /

noun

1. Ernesto Teodoro 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.

2. (in Roman religion) an epithet of Juno.

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Example Sentences

The archive consists of more than 4.5 million images primarily from Black photographers, including Ebony’s Moneta Sleet Jr., who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for an image he captured of Coretta Scott King at husband Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s also president of Moneta Gardens Improvement, a nonprofit that supports low-income families in Hawthorne, and founded the South Bay Universal Child Development Center preschool, known as the Castle.

From Los Angeles Times

The first iterations of the French press—sans seal—were invented in 1852, but a version similar to the one we use today was patented in the United States in 1929 by Attilio Calimani and Giulio Moneta.

From Salon

Moneta was a township, now part of Gardena, that flourished from the turn of the century until World War II as a center where Japanese families farmed and shopped and went to school; the community survives in memory and programs at the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute, and in a few Gardena businesses calling themselves “Moneta.”

From Los Angeles Times

And like Moneta, Sawtelle was a deeply rooted neighborhood for Japanese Angelenos.

From Los Angeles Times