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Anthea , "blossom" in Greek, was an epithet of the Classical Greek goddess Hera, and is used as a female given name in English. It may refer to:

  • Anthea Askey (1933–1999), English actress who was a popular television actress of the 1950s
  • Anthea Bell OBE (born 1936), British translator who has translated numerous literary works
  • Anthea Benton, British television commercial and music video director, best known for her adverts for Stella Artois and Levi's
  • Anthea Fraser (born 1930), novelist
  • Anthea Millett, Chairman of the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority from 2002 to 2006
  • Anthea Phillipps B.Sc. (born 1956), British botanist
  • Anthea Redfern (born 1953), former British television hostess, assistant to her husband Bruce Forsyth
  • Anthea Stewart (born 1944), former field hockey player from Zimbabwe
  • Anthea Sylbert (born 1939), American costume designer
  • Anthea Turner (born 1960), English television presenter and media personality
  • Anthea, the home planet (which is dying of lack of water) of the fictitous alien Thomas Jerome Newton, the protagonist of Walter Tevis's sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth. In the novel's 1976 film adaptation by Nicolas Roeg, Newton was played by David Bowie and the scenes taking place on dying Anthea were shot at White Sands, New Mexico.

Usage examples of "anthea".

Yet I daresay you believe all that about the earth and the sun, and if so you will find it quite easy to believe that before Anthea and Cyril and the others had been a week in the country they had found a fairy.

They called Anthea 'Panther', which seems silly when you read it, but when you say it it sounds a little like her name.

No one could think of anything, only Anthea did manage to remember a private wish of her own and jane's which they had never told the boys.

The rain fell in slow drops on to Anthea's face from the wet corner of a bath-towel which her brother Robert was gently squeezing the water out of, to wake her up, as he now explained.

Jane felt that Cyril was right, but Anthea was not sure, till after they had seen Martha and heard her full and plain reminders about their naughty conduct the day before.

Only Anthea had presence of mind enough to shout a timid 'Good-morning, I hope your whisker will be better to-morrow,' as she ran.

To begin with, Anthea, who had had the misfortune to sit on her hat earlier in the day, wished to buy another.

The boys would have given up the idea, but Jane was always a hopeful child, and Anthea generally an obstinate one, and their earnestness prevailed.

But afterwards this preyed on Anthea's mind, and at last she secretly sent twelve stamps by post to 'Mr Beale, Baker, Rochester'.

Then of course the sand got into his eyes, as it had into Anthea's, and he howled.

He liked this very much, and consented to let the two gipsy women feed him with it, as he sat on Anthea's lap.

All that long hot afternoon Robert and Cyril and Anthea and Jane had to keep the Lamb amused and happy, while the gipsies looked eagerly on.

Suddenly Anthea, greatly daring, held out the Lamb to the red-handkerchief man.

It was Robert who had the misfortune to upset the ink-pot - an unusually deep and full one - straight into that part of Anthea's desk where she had long pretended that an arrangement of gum and cardboard painted with Indian ink was a secret drawer.

At the same time a stream was poured over Anthea's half-finished letter.