TERESA

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

1. Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)

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

• TERESA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Mother Teresa; Mother Theresa; Teresa; Theresa

Instance hypernyms:

missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)

nun (a woman religious)

 Context examples 

"Teresa, she go to school, she can."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Experiments carried out with diverse marine bacteria shed light on the processes by which barite precipitates in bacterial biofilms from the bioaccumulation of barium in bacterial cells and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), Francisca Martínez Ruiz and María Teresa González Muñoz, researcher from the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT) and professor emeritus of the Department of Microbiology at the UGR, respectively, explain.

(Researchers discover the oceanic precipitation mechanism for barium, which is a proxy for marine bacterial productivity, University of Granada)

The letter despatched to the letter-box by Teresa, Martin lay back and thought.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"We offer you forty dollars for all serial rights in your story," Teresa slowly spelled out, "provided you allow us to make the alterations suggested."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So Teresa Silva, aged nine, opened his letters and read them to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)