Svetlana

[svet-lah-nuh, sfet-, svyi-tlah-nuh]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

We learn the GLP-1 origin story largely through Svetlana Mojsov, a chemist who came to the U.S. in 1972 for graduate school from what was then Yugoslavia.

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One of the deaths was reported in the city of Taganrog, where mayor Svetlana Kambulova vowed "necessary response measures".

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"People have been looking for ways to harvest water from the atmosphere, which could be a big source of water particularly for desert regions and places where there is not even saltwater to desalinate," says Svetlana Boriskina, principal research scientist in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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It was found by Svetlana, the grim-faced servant who did more than her share of work around the estate.

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Whether she would be so grim-faced if she were not bound to the Babushkinovs as a serf is a question only Svetlana could answer, but to be a serf in Russia was a terrible condition, a form of slavery that caused suffering to millions.

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