SARAH

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

1. (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac

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

• SARAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

“About your second sister, Sarah,” said he.

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

And Sarah's here—the one I mentioned to you as having something the matter with her spine, you know.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here, Sarah, come to Miss Bennet this moment, and help her on with her gown.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I wish Sarah was here to doctor you, but I am no doctor myself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Sarah came back with her; they both went to bed; they were whispering together for half-an-hour before they fell asleep.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I can allow for his wishing Catherine away, when he recollected this engagement,” said Sarah, “but why not do it civilly?”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The study was led by Sarah Lambart, a geologist at the University of Utah.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

Studies have shown that parent-child interaction is crucial for a child’s development and learning, so we wanted to understand if there were prenatal signs that might predict a parent’s behaviour, says Dr Sarah Foley, the study’s first author.

(Mother’s attitude towards baby during pregnancy may have implications for child’s development, University of Cambridge)

Those are my sisters, Sarah and Mary.

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

Sarah has something the matter with her spine, poor girl.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)