Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Spanish (and American Spanish) name of several species of mullet.

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  • proper noun A female given name.

Etymologies

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Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages.

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Examples

  • MELANIE GREENBER, LISA STEBIC ` S COUSIN: Thank you, Nancy, for this opportunity to get Lisa ` s picture out there to a national audience.

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2007 2007

  • MARTI MACKENZIE, SPOKESPERSON FOR LISA NOWAK: Well, actually, I know that that has sort of been talked to death, and I ` m here actually to respond to the prosecution ` s accusation that Lisa is spending money on a media consultant.

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2007 2007

  • MELANIE GREENBERG, COUSIN OF LISA STEBIC: The same way that we know that Lisa would never have left her children, this family is adamant that Stacy would never have left her two small children and that she adopted Drew's older children, as well.

    CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007 2007

  • MIKE NICHOLS, ATTORNEY FOR LISA HOLLAND: Well, Jane, I ` m not going to comment on what Lisa has to say.

    CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2006 2006

  • ‘Lisa, Lisa, darling, ’ began Marfa Timofyevna eagerly, ‘where is my book? where did you put my book?

    Chapter XLII 1917

  • LIsa jokes that maybe he just doesn't see her as a girl and she wished she had big bewbz like Cecily (lmao wtf Lisa, you keep checking out her chest are you lez? mygod a lez loli in mah animu XD)

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • ALONIE WALTON, MOTHER OF MISSING WOMAN LISA HATCHELL: Lisa didn ` t have no enemy.

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2008 2008

  • KIMBERLY YOUNG, FRIEND OF LISA STEBIC ` S: I know Lisa from -- I hired her, actually.

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2007 2007

  • Since the idea hit her, Red had hit the library, the video store and a few other places and established IDs and accounts under the name Lisa Lennox.

    Dirtier Than Ever Vickie M. Stringer 2010

  • Phone bills, utility bills, you name it … all under the name Lisa Lennox.

    Dirtier Than Ever Vickie M. Stringer 2010

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