Susanna

[soo-zan-uh]

noun

a book of the Apocrypha, constituting the 13th chapter of Daniel in the Douay Bible.

Also Su·san·nah. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “lily.”

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Contemporary Examples of susanna

She Mattersby Susanna Sonnenberg The author collects female friends like kitchenware, but engineers many interpersonal collapses.
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Mythili Rao
January 7, 2013
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Michael Tomasky
November 18, 2012
Susanna C. Larsson, et al. “Coffee Consumption and Risk of Stroke in Women.”
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Anneli Rufus
October 28, 2011

Historical Examples of susanna

You want me to ask—to ask Elviry and Susanna and them to come in here?
Fair Harbor
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Seems to me they told me that Susanna's name was Samuels afore she married Brackett.
Fair Harbor
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Susanna Brackett, why don't you or the rest tell me what she's sayin'?
Fair Harbor
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
You don't suppose I'd be as excited as all this over a letter from Susanna Wixon, do you?
Kent Knowles: Quahaug
Joseph C. Lincoln
Susanna was less strong than Sarah and less amiable than Amelia.
Is He Popenjoy?
Anthony Trollope

British Dictionary definitions for susanna

Susanna

noun Apocrypha

the wife of Joachim, who was condemned to death for adultery because of a false accusation, but saved by Daniel's sagacity

the book of the Apocrypha containing this story

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Word Origin and History for susanna

Susanna

fem. proper name, from Latin Susanna, from Greek Sousana, from Hebrew Shoshannah, literally "a lily." One of the women that attended Jesus in his journeys.