Meaning of Vanessa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
2. Any butterfly of the genus Vanessa.

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Examples

“Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.”

“A kind of girl that May had before only seen in the pages of fashion magazines, bored, disdainful, elegant, reluctantly admitted her. - - - She was asked to see Vanessa on the way out. She knew that the girl would be called something like Vanessa.”

“Vanessa likes the ultrapopular Madison as a girl's name, which tells you everything you need to know about her personality.”

“Democrats called for investigation, not resignation, after Vanessa Tyson accused Justin Fairfax of sexual assault earlier this week.”

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