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Catherine

or Cath·er·yn

[ kath-er-in, kath-rin ]

noun

  1. a female given name.


Catherine

/ ˈkæθrɪn /

noun

  1. Catherine, Saint307FEgyptianRELIGION: martyrRELIGION: saint Saint. died 307 ad , legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded


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Example Sentences

“Thank you for reminding us,” said Catherine, the wife of Prince William, who is second in the line of succession to the British throne.

George is quick to start building their new lives around his art history career while Catherine feels increasingly cut off from the rest of the world.

From Time

It’s David and Catherine, the couple in the posthumously published “The Garden of Eden,” who, defying convention, switch gender and sexual roles.

While the pope dragged his feet over whether to let Henry leave Catherine and marry Anne, King Henry decided to up and leave the Catholic church instead — launching the Protestant Reformation.

From Ozy

Catherine and Greg Hughes were still celebrating the birth of their second child, Riley, in February 2015, when the 3-week-old started exhibiting mild, cold-like symptoms with an occasional cough.

From Ozy

Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.

Catherine Lemay is impressed by neither the myth nor the reality when she arrives in Montana in the summer of 1956.

A case study would be your Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.

Catherine kept the boy, at great personal cost to herself, and she is never totally sure she has done the right thing.

Catherine also seems to relish the danger and violence of her job.

Tchaikovsky was always deeply interested in his countrys past, especially in the period of Catherine II.

Fisheries off the Abrolhos, and from St. Catherine's, might perhaps do something towards it.

According to Gothard, Catherine was in all her mistress' secrets and furthered all her schemes.

Mademoiselle Catherine talks for her guests as well as for herself; she asks questions and gives the answers.

There's fine conversation for you; Mademoiselle Catherine's tongue goes nineteen to the dozen.

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