A female given name from Ancient Greek, in regular use since the 19th century.
irene
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for irene.
Editorial note
Just posted this interview of Irene Ros and Jory Burson from Bocoup to hear more about the OpenVis Conf for Data Visualizers.
Quick take
A female given name from Ancient Greek, in regular use since the 19th century.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of irene gathered in one view.
A city and town in South Dakota, United States.
(Greek mythology) Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ; equivalent to the Roman goddess Pax.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for irene.
noun
A female given name from Ancient Greek, in regular use since the 19th century.
noun
A city and town in South Dakota, United States.
noun
(Greek mythology) Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ; equivalent to the Roman goddess Pax.
noun
(astronomy) 14 Irene, a main belt asteroid.
Example sentences
Just posted this interview of Irene Ros and Jory Burson from Bocoup to hear more about the OpenVis Conf for Data Visualizers.
Reminds me of the case of Irene Choge a journalist who attended a Google sponsored Bootcamp and later discovered flaws in certain schools in Kenya.
They need to replace it with Flowers By Irene van?
That's not Sandy, that's Irene from 2011...
Over the course of thirty years of work between psychologist Irene Pepperberg and Alex, purchased from a Chicago pet store at one year of age, the parrot amassed a vocabulary of some 150 words.
When inhaled the sulfur is known to cause respiratory problems and even increases the risk of a heart attack.[17] According to Irene Blooming, a spokeswoman for the European environmental coalition Seas at Risk, the fuel used in oil tankers and container ships is high in sulfur and cheaper to buy compared to the fuel used for domestic land use.
The combined storm system is currently forecast to drop twice as much rain as Irene across a much larger area (recall, if you will, the catastrophic flooding that resulted from that event), raise a 20+ foot storm surge across much of the mid-Atlantic coast during at least two high tide cycles, and produce sustained winds over a 25+ hour period during a time of year when most trees haven't yet fully lost their leaves.
Amazingly, he missed the horses, and the front wheels, but his head was smashed by one of the rear wheels; part of his skull wound up on Marie's dress, and the supposed story is that Marie never washed her dress - kept wearing it until her daughter Irene finally convinced her to burn it in a pyre.
I'd also like to point out another obvious fact: this idiom completely breaks down when the subject happens to be more than one person, i.e: steve_and_irene.drink(water) whereas it works fine in the procedural case (thanks to varargs): drink(water,steve,irene,...).
Quote examples
It's about as believable as having the FBI spy on me by parking a van outside my house that says "Flowers By Irene".
For example "Irene Pepperberg’s work with Alex the parrot dwarfs the scientific contributions of all other sequencing to date put together." this is not true.
When Hurricane Irene was moving up the coast a few years ago they did the typical "storm of the century, omg a billion people might die!!!" routine and we got light wind and rain.
"Or, as Joe Clark more bluntly put it in his post Google Smothers Designers, “[t]his is, after all, a place where usability head Irene Au recapitulates her own math nerds and derides typography as something twee designers fiddle with to make pages “breathe.”… Welcome, Irene Au, to the title of Worst Enemy of Web Design.”" That's awful.
Proper noun examples
Irene Pepperberg studied an African grey parrot named Alex for 30 years.
Irene Pepperberg has had meaningful conversations with an African Grey parrot.
That said, I don't know from political incorrectness, Irene, but your reply did introduce a racial angle to the thread that confused me.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use irene in a sentence?
Just posted this interview of Irene Ros and Jory Burson from Bocoup to hear more about the OpenVis Conf for Data Visualizers.
What does irene mean?
A female given name from Ancient Greek, in regular use since the 19th century.
What part of speech is irene?
irene is commonly used as noun.