ANNE

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• ANNE (noun)
  The noun ANNE has 1 sense:

1. Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)

  Familiarity information: ANNE used as a noun is very rare.

• ANNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

 Context examples 

Lady Russell felt obliged to oppose her dear Anne's known wishes.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You know of course that Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy were sisters; consequently that she is aunt to the present Mr. Darcy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These exciting outcomes show that long-term commitment to basic research has incredible potential for real-world impact, says Anne Sylvester, a program officer in NSF's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

“Prescribing patterns for diuretics vary among hospitals,” said Anne Zajicek, M.D., Pharm. D., the study’s senior author.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

“CFCs have lifetimes from 50 to 100 years, so they linger in the atmosphere for a very long time,” said Anne Douglass, a fellow atmospheric scientist at Goddard and the study’s co-author.

(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)

Jo Anne Val Tilburg of the University of California, Los Angeles disagreed with these findings: The existence of fresh water seeps near coastal ahu is well-known and was certainly important at European contact.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

I thought this sentiment so incompatible with the establishment of any system of check on Mary Anne, that I frowned a little.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh! They talked a great deal about him, especially Anne Cox.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Anne and me are to go the latter end of January to some relations who have been wanting us to visit them these several years!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Maria's intelligence concluded with a tender effusion of pity for her sister Anne, whom she represented as insupportably cross, from being excluded the party.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)