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Sara

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.

    Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.

    The oldest Weaver girls, Sara, 16, and Rachel, 10, were unharmed, as was their infant sister, Elisheba, whom Vicki had been holding when a sniper’s bullet crashed into her head.

    'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud. 'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?' 'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'

    “It was absolutely terrible,” [Richard] Spencer told CNN’s Sara Ganim by phone hours after the assault. “I’ve certain never had this happen before – a sucker punch in broad daylight.”

Etymology

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).

Forms

plural
Saras
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