Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Queen of the Netherlands (1948–1980) who abdicated in favor of her daughter Beatrix.
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- proper noun A female
given name , Latin feminine form of Julianus, derivative ofJulius .
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Examples
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Somewhere Juliana is polishing her combat boots and I love her for it.
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Like Veronica, Juliana is driven to solve the mystery.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Like Veronica, Juliana is driven to solve the mystery.
Blackthorn Winter 2006
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Or, as in Juliana's case, the name-giver might choose a word or phrase reflecting what she considered the most salient characteristic of her life at the time of the child's birth.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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For a small group of local women her age, however, Juliana is "Xiyuta" or "Xiphukuphuku" names that may have expressed "bitterness" for her mother, but that seemed to bring greatand mildly subversivepleasure to her and the women who use them, consciously evoking their friend's maternal heritage in the same way the other names denote her marital status or patrilineal descent.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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My family said everyone was talking about the team, captain Juliana says.
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'Juliana' -- ahead of me; and left silence in my wake, as the inhabitants dropped their occupations and sauntered out to stare at
Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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And he's a prime example of how tragedy and suffering can really transform someone into a very expanded state of awareness, where he's created something called the Juliana Fund, and he's helping now children all over the world with greater awareness, love and compassion.
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On page one of the Thursday, August 19, 2010 paper, for example, there is an ad placed by a M.s S.M. Chabert offering a $16 reward for the return of a runaway mulatto slave called Juliana, who was said to be harboring at the Springs.
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Police called Juliana's death suspicious from the beginning.
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