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geraldine

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for geraldine.

Editorial note

There was also a brief Geraldine fad in 1988, coinciding with Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for Vice President.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of geraldine gathered in one view.

noun

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

noun

A town in South Canterbury, New Zealand, named after the FitzGerald family.

noun

A town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for geraldine.

noun

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

noun

A town in South Canterbury, New Zealand, named after the FitzGerald family.

noun

A town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.

noun

A small town in Chouteau County, Montana, United States.

Example sentences

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There was also a brief Geraldine fad in 1988, coinciding with Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for Vice President.

2

The Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to the homeowner Geraldine Tyler in her dispute over Hennepin County seizing her home.

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*The author is Geraldine DeRuiter (and it may be the best resto review I've ever read also).

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Joan Hickson's is maybe the best (even though I prefer Geraldine McEwan as an actress) but I never took to it like Poirot.

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But if you're Andrew Whittaker or Geraldine Williams or Harold and Helen Lerner[1], it turns out that you can do better than the guys patiently working at startups.

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Like Frau Farbissina or Geraldine or Gertrude.

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Foundation, The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Craigslist Foundation, Davis Wright Tremaine, The Geraldine R.

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> Garrett Camp and I were hanging out in Paris for a week at Loic and Geraldine LeMeur’s LeWeb conference.

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I would trust a Geraldine with my books.

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> The hoax is that a person named Geraldine Edwards was the last girlfriend of singer Robert Palmer, despite the fact that all the newspapers reported Palmer's last girlfriend to be Mary Ambrose, a living person.

Quote examples

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" > " "Nancy was the most gracious person I ever met," said retired coworker Geraldine Hunter, 82, echoing nearly verbatim what Pope John Paul II would have said after inviting Hollander to play at the Vatican in 1989.

Proper noun examples

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Interesting to see the first woman on that list is at #21 (Geraldine Chaplin).

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Geraldine Laybourne, who built/ran Nickelodeon for 15+ years, recently joined BetaWorks' board [1].

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Geraldine Kennedy had some serious backbone and she wasn't driven by business considerations.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use geraldine in a sentence?

There was also a brief Geraldine fad in 1988, coinciding with Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for Vice President.

What does geraldine mean?

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

What part of speech is geraldine?

geraldine is commonly used as noun.