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Maximiliana

Maximiliana proper noun: a female given name of rare usage.

Proper noun

Maximiliana

  1. A female given name of rare usage.
    • In New Y[o]rk, […] Capt. Francis J. Chase to Miss Maximiliana J. Miller; […]1851 May 30, “Married”, in Brooklyn Evening Star, year XLIII, number 3216, Brooklyn, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [2], column 6
    • A female white rabbit, named Maximiliana, is looking for a new home.1967 July 16, Lovilla Hoerning Wheeler, quoting the owner, “Horning In”, in Sunday News and Leader, city final edition, volume 39, number 9, Springfield, Mo., →OCLC, page D23, column 4

Examples of Maximiliana in a sentence

  • Wonder why.’ ‘She?’ ‘Maximiliana Sebastiane Horne.1984, Madeleine L’Engle, [part 1], in A House Like a Lotus, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 28:
  • Maximiliana—Miliana to her friends, Max to her lovers, Mom to her kids—set down the yellow bucket containing a pungent and vaporous mixture of powders and fluids.1988, Susan Trott, chapter 1, in Pursued by the Crooked Man: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 4:
  • Rodges and Lisa Ankrah of Alexandria, Va., announced the birth of a daughter, Elisha Maximiliana, on April 22.1992 May 14, “Tucson, Arizona: Shalom Mennonite Fellowship, May 6, 1992”, in Mennonite Weekly Review, 70th year, number 20, Newton, Kan....

Forms of Maximiliana

alternative formMaximilliana

Origin of Maximiliana

Learned borrowing from Latin Maximiliāna, feminine of Maximiliānus. By surface analysis, Maximilian + -a.

Questions about Maximiliana

What does Maximiliana mean?
Maximiliana means a female given name of rare usage.
How do you use Maximiliana in a sentence?
Wonder why.’ ‘She?’ ‘Maximiliana Sebastiane Horne.
What part of speech is Maximiliana?
Maximiliana is a proper noun.

Words near Maximiliana in the dictionary

  1. maximed
  2. Maximi
  3. Maximilian
  4. Maximilian sunflower
  5. Maximilian sunflowers
  6. Maximiliana
  7. Maximillian
  8. Maximilliana
  9. maximin
  10. maximined
  11. maximinflation

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