Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • In the Apocrypha, a woman in Babylon who was falsely accused of adultery and was rescued by Daniel.

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  • proper noun A female given name
  • proper noun biblical A follower of Jesus (Luke 8:3)
  • proper noun biblical A book of the Apocrypha.

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  • noun an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek Σουσάννα (Sousanna), the New Testament form of Hebrew שושנה (sušan, "lily").

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Examples

  • She is seated alone, when her clever maid Susanna ushers in the young page Cherubino, just banished from the house because obnoxious to the jealous Count.] _Susanna_ -- Here's our young Captain, Madame.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Now the name Susanna has appeared before in recorded history also in connection with bathing -- a most irreproachable Susanna.

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • Red-headed beauty Susanna is Danish-born and she is joined on stage by four female backing singers / dancers making this an all-girl number.

    esctoday.com | news 2009

  • Susanna is pretty sure he’s said something to the girl about his situation, but knows he hasn’t talked to her parents.

    A Boy's Life 2008

  • Susanna is pretty sure he’s said something to the girl about his situation, but knows he hasn’t talked to her parents.

    A Boy's Life 2008

  • "Are you too big to be kissed even by mother?" called Susanna, hurrying to her boy, who submitted to her embrace with better grace.

    Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Lanta Long Tail is a company run by a lady called Susanna and her husband (Sunny I think?!) who do private long tail boat trips out to the Islands for fishing, snorkelling and sightseeing ... it works out just as cheap as doing a normal snorkelling trip but from what we witnessed during the day, it was so much better.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • I was also influenced by major memoirs of my "formative" years that helped to destigmatize depression, such as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted and Elizabeth Wurztel's Prozac Nation.

    A Talk with Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head 2010

  • Santerre's "Susanna" depicts the woman whose story is told in Daniel 13, which is part of the Deuterocanon or Apocrypha.

    A Woman Cloaked in Literature and Legend 2007

  • I speak of people such as Susanna and Catherine of Paliacatt, who were sent into exile from Batavia to serve life imprisonment on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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