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susanna
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Susanna is a feminine first name . It is not very common in the US, and is found there predominantly among the American Jewish community. It is the name of women in the Biblical books of Daniel and Luke . It is often spelled Susannah , although Susanna ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Susannah , fem. proper name, from Latin Susanna , from Greek Sousanna , from Hebrew Shoshannah , literally "a lily." One of the women that attended Jesus in his journeys. Greek also borrowed the Semitic word in its literal sense as souson "lily."
Usage examples of susanna.
In spite of the efforts of the Countess and Susanna to make him confess its authorship, Figaro stoutly insists that he knows nothing of it.
From her Figaro learns that the letter which he had seen the Count read during the dance was from Susanna, and becomes furiously jealous.
Mozart was right to let the feelings of the loving maiden shine forth in all their depth and purity, for Susanna has none but her Figaro in her mind, and the sentiments she expresses are her true ones.
Cherubino, watched from different places of concealment by the Count, Figaro, and Susanna, appears, and, seeing the Countess, whom he takes for Susanna, confounds not her alone, but also the Count and Figaro, by his ardent addresses to her.
This task completed, he stood by while the others signed in their various capacities - Irene as Mate, Tallentire as Second Mate, Bronheim as Chief Engineer, Metzenther as Communications Officer, and Susanna as Purser.
Tallentire, spelled by Susanna, manned the Carlotti Beacon, that device used both for FTL navigation and for punching radio signals across light years almost instantaneously.
Bronheim, whoever it is that Susanna has picked up may attempt temporal synchronization .
Tallentire was white and trembling, but had eyes only for Susanna, who seemed to be unconscious.
The party followed the sergeant into the Embassy - Trafford and Irene first, Susanna and Metzenther bringing up the rear.
The look he bestowed upon Susanna was more of a leer than anything else.
For Irene and Trafford as well as for Tallentire and Susanna it was a honeymoon, and Bronheim and Metzenther were able to cope easily with the working of the automated ship, to maintain the watch on the various instruments.
Irene and Susanna, that he was taken aback that a ship that had performed so valiantly numbered women among her crew, and one of those women in a position of importance.
Receiving nothing but indignant rejoinders, he twits Susanna with loving the lad, and more than intimates that Cherubino is in love with the Countess.
Reminded that the lad knows of his pursuit of Susanna, the Count modifies his sentence of dismissal from his service to banishment to Seville as an officer in his regiment.
This would fan the fires of his jealousy and so enrage him that he would forget his designs against Susanna until she was safely married, when he would discover that he had been outwitted.