CATHERINE

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• CATHERINE (noun)
  The noun CATHERINE has 2 senses:

1. first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)

2. empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)

  Familiarity information: CATHERINE used as a noun is rare.

• CATHERINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

First wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Catherine; Catherine of Aragon

Instance hypernyms:

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Catherine; Catherine II; Catherine the Great

Instance hypernyms:

empress (a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor)

 Context examples 

With such encouragement, Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The name makes me think of poor Isabella; for she was very near being christened Catherine after her grandmama.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Catherine looked, but could not see where it had gone; so she said, “Well, I suppose the other will go the same way and find you; he has younger legs than I have.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it,” said he in a crackling voice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I believe him to be Lady Catherine's nephew.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Co-researcher and Head of La Trobe's School of Allied Health, Professor Catherine Itsiopoulos, said the results were promising.

(Fish-Rich Diet Beneficial for Children with Asthma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Catherine too made some purchases herself, and when all these matters were arranged, the important evening came which was to usher her into the Upper Rooms.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Catherine stood musing for a while, and at last said to her husband, Hark ye, Frederick, we will soon get the gold back: let us run after the thieves.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Lady Catherine de Bourgh,” she replied, “has very lately given him a living. I hardly know how Mr. Collins was first introduced to her notice, but he certainly has not known her long.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)