Susanna
[soo-zan-uh]
- 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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Examples from the Web for susanna
Contemporary Examples
She Mattersby Susanna Sonnenberg The author collects female friends like kitchenware, but engineers many interpersonal collapses.
Scott Walker, Haley Barbour, Michael Steele, Susanna Martinez, and others have made similar remarks.
Susanna C. Larsson, et al. “Coffee Consumption and Risk of Stroke in Women.”
Historical Examples
You want me to ask—to ask Elviry and Susanna and them to come in here?
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
Seems to me they told me that Susanna's name was Samuels afore she married Brackett.
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
Susanna Brackett, why don't you or the rest tell me what she's sayin'?
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
You don't suppose I'd be as excited as all this over a letter from Susanna Wixon, do you?
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
Susanna was less strong than Sarah and less amiable than Amelia.
Is He Popenjoy?Anthony Trollope
Susanna
- 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.
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