Hilary

[ hil-uh-ree ]

noun
  1. Also Hi·laire [hi-lair; French ee-ler]. /hɪ lɛər; French iˈlɛr/. a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “cheerful.”

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How to use Hilary in a sentence

  • At last the walls on the side of the suburbs of St. Hilaire and Martainville were breached by the overwhelming fire of the enemy.

  • This mine, when St. Hilaire visited it, was considered as exhausted; it is now one of the richest in Brazil.

  • The writer, the noted author Hilaire Belloc, reminds his readers of certain important facts.

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  • Hilaire had been away from England, and he had come back to find his brother aged and altered—and married.

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  • So it passed through many hands until at last Hilaire Avenel bought it and filled it with the books and armour that he loved.

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