Olga

[ol-guh, ohl-, awl-guh]

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.”

Example Sentences

Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian office, told the BBC the situation in Gaza City is "nothing short of cataclysmic".

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Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian office, said she had seen a constant stream of Palestinians heading south during a recent visit to the city, but that hundreds of thousands remained.

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Fellow opposition official Olga Zazulinskaya wrote on social media that their release was good news for their families and friends but noted that they were obtaining their freedom in exchange for exile, rather than a return home.

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In his first tournament at the helm, the pair had multiple daily practices at the Cincinnati Open, where she confidently breezed past Serbia's Olga Danilovic before – more notably – pushing world number one Aryna Sabalenka to her limit.

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Pegula and Draper will play Russia's Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev in the last eight after they beat Serbia's Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic.

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