Susanna
Americannoun
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a book of the Apocrypha, constituting the 13th chapter of Daniel in the Douay Bible.
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Also Susannah. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “lily.”
noun
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the wife of Joachim, who was condemned to death for adultery because of a false accusation, but saved by Daniel's sagacity
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the book of the Apocrypha containing this story
Example Sentences
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He introduced Margareta and Jane Magnusson to a literary agent, Susanna Lea, who sold the idea to Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
The score came seven seconds after Finland’s Susanna Tapani was sent off for hooking.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
Nearly "every person who seeks treatment has been traumatised in some way," says Dr Susanna Galea-Singer, chair of the Faculty of Addictions at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
The house had already been left by Shakespeare to his eldest daughter, Susanna, who was alive and living there with Nash and Elizabeth, her daughter.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
So close that Susanna chose the name Morgan for her second child.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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