Barbara

Definitions

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".

Equivalents

21 more languages

العربيةباربارابربارة

Catalàbarbarà

ČeštinaBarbora

DanskBarbara

Ελληνικάβαρβάρα

EsperantoBarbro

GaeilgeBairbre

ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiPalapala

MagyarBarbaraBorbála

ՀայերենՎարվառե

ItalianoBarbara

LatinaBarbara

LietuviųBarbora

LatviešuBaiba

NorskBarbro

PolskiBarbara

Portuguêsbárbara

Românăbarbară

РусскийБарбараВарвара

SlovenčinaBarbora

SvenskaBarbro

Examples

“My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love⟳, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake⟳ her; […]”

“All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay⟳ / For love⟳ of Barbara Allen.”

“"What do you think⟳ they are going to name⟳ the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name⟳!" "I don't think⟳ so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like⟳ it much. Look⟳ at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like⟳ her name⟳.”

“"Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present⟳ all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara."”

“'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name⟳.”

“Among Soloway’s congregants injured in the attack was Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become⟳ one of the most poignant symbols of the attack.”

“If you see⟳ a girl you like⟳, prove⟳ it to her by Barbara and Celarent all the way to Fresison or whatever the logician's Omega is — I forget⟳.”

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