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Sara

Sara proper noun: a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.

Proper noun

Sara (plural Saras)

  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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:11
    • Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
    • My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
    • At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 151

Examples of Sara in a sentence

  • 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.1996 May 18, Howard Rosenberg, “‘Ruby Ridge’: A Tragedy or an Inevitable End?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles...
  • “It was absolutely terrible,” [Richard] Spencer told CNN’s Sara Ganim by phone hours after the assault.2017 January 21, Paul P. Murphy, “White nationalist Richard Spencer punched during interview”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Mar...

Forms of Sara

pluralSaras

Origin of Sara

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).

Words formed from Sara

Phrases with Sara

Words that rhyme with Sara

Questions about Sara

What does Sara mean?
Sara means a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
How do you use Sara in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is Sara?
Sara is a proper noun.

Words near Sara in the dictionary

  1. saquinavir
  2. SAR
  3. sar tan se juda
  4. Sar-e Pol
  5. Sar.
  6. Sara
  7. Sara'
  8. saraad
  9. saraads
  10. Sarabaite
  11. Sarabaites

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