Used in a Sentence

meir

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

Editorial note

A few, for example Meir Ettinger, an hilltop youth leader has served some time in jail.

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Quick take

A surname from Hebrew.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A surname from Hebrew.

noun

An outer suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9342).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for meir.

noun

A surname from Hebrew.

noun

An outer suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9342).

Example sentences

1

A few, for example Meir Ettinger, an hilltop youth leader has served some time in jail.

2

Golda Meir was the Prime Minister (head of government) of Israel after having naturalized in the US when she was 19.

3

Then Israeli PM Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered that nuclear warheads be readied for launch from missiles and aircraft.

4

Golda Meir talks about a situation just like this while visiting Africa.

5

Golda Meir was from Odessa and grew up in Milwaukee.

6

Israelis will probably stay and fight to the death (in fact, they have, during the Yom Kippur war, where Golda Meir forced the US to act by arming nuclear weapons).

7

As an extreme example of the power of MAD fear, the Yom Kippur War was ended by US intervention (or at least the threat thereof) saving the Israelis at the last minute after Golda Meir made the bet that arming the nuclear weapons would be detected by the CIA and result in exactly such intervention.

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Israelis like Geulah Cohen, Moshe Barzani, Eliyahu Hakim, Shimon Tzabar, Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, Mordechai Alkahi, Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, Eliezer Kashani, and Shmuel Tankus were all prominent Mizrahi leaders and commanders in Lehi, Irgun, and the Haganah.

Quote examples

1

Golda Meir wisely said, "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us".

2

More honest Israelis, like Meir Kahane, at least acknowledged that Jewish majority state is not compatible with democracy, when "greater Israel" is mostly occupied by non-Jews.

3

"Don’t be so humble — you’re not that great" -- Golda Meir.

4

As Golda Meir put it: "If we have to choose between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image."

Proper noun examples

1

Meir Kahane did not think it was, and his policies are what are being carried out on the West Bank.

2

I read a quote somewhere by Golda Meir, it went 'don't be humble, you're not that great'.

3

CPS is heavily used in scala these days, as far as I can tell by reading Ingo Meir's work.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use meir in a sentence?

A few, for example Meir Ettinger, an hilltop youth leader has served some time in jail.

What does meir mean?

A surname from Hebrew.

What part of speech is meir?

meir is commonly used as noun.