Olga

American  

[ol-guh, ohl-, awl-guh] / ˈɒl gə, ˈoʊl-, ˈɔl gə /

noun

1. Saint, died a.d. 968?, regent of Kyiv until 955: saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

2. a female given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “holy.”

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Example Sentences

External collaborators included the DNAzoo project and Olga Dudchenko and Erez Lieberman Aiden, who are both faculty members at Rice University and at the Baylor College of Medicine.

From Science Daily

"These are our children, these are our warriors, they defended us," said Olga, 55, tearing up.

From Barron's

"What we fear all the time is that the blackout will drag on and we will lose the little bit that we have in the fridge, because everything is so expensive," said Olga Suarez, a 64-year-old retiree.

From Barron's

Power suppliers want to make sure that if demand doesn’t grow enough, they still have enough commitments in general to fund any increase in capacity, said Olga Usvyatsky, an accounting consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The hopes of the whole country were pinned on him -- of all the people who wanted it to be free here," said Olga Vinogradova, a 66-year-old volunteer who tends to the pop-up memorial to Nemtsov on the bridge.

From Barron's