Susanna

[soo-zan-uh]

noun

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

2. Also Susannah. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “lily.”

Susanna

/ suːˈzænə /

noun

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

2. the book of the Apocrypha containing this story

Example Sentences

Christopher Marlowe truthers aside, William Shakespeare was an actual person who, historical records concur, married a pregnant woman eight years his senior and had three kids: Susanna, the eldest, and twins Judith and Hamnet.

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She knew her guests had studied the music of Stephen Foster in school, so she arranged for a group to serenade them with songs like “Oh! Susanna” and “My Old Kentucky Home.”

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Psychotherapist Susanna Abse says a little space and variety can be vital to a successful relationship.

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But Hindemith’s “Sancta Susanna,” with its startling love affair between a nun and her maid servant, titillated German audiences at the start of the roaring twenties, and still can.

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The "remarkable" 17th century building, once home to the bard's daughter Susanna and her husband John Hall, was already undergoing a significant conservation project to help preserve it.

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