antonia

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Определение antonia в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

A female given name

Oh, Antonia, my mother sighs. Her face looks pained. She is quiet for a few moments and then she says, Antonia is such a lovely name. When I named you, you were the sweetest, most perfect little baby. - - - .

feminine form of Anthony

{i} female first name; town in Montana (USA)

Связанные Термины

Antonia Susan Byatt

orig. Antonia Susan Drabble born Aug. 24, 1936, Sheffield, Eng. British novelist and scholar. Sister of Margaret Drabble, she was educated at Cambridge and taught at University College, London. Her third novel, The Virgin in the Garden (1978), won high acclaim; the sequel Still Life (1985) followed. Possession (1990), a virtuoso double narrative, won the 1990 Booker Prize, and both it and Angels and Insects (1991) were adapted for film. Her story collections include The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1995) and Elementals (1998). Degrees of Freedom (1965) was the first major study of Iris Murdoch. In 2002 Byatt published the novel A Whistling Woman, the last of a series of four novels beginning with The Virgin in the Garden featuring the character Frederica Potter

My Antonia

{i} novel written by Willa Cather in 1918 about a Bohemian immigrant (Antonia Shimerda) in Nebraska

Расстановка переносов

An·to·ni·a

Турецкое произношение

äntōniı

Произношение

/anˈtōnēə/ /ænˈtoʊniːə/

Этимология

() From Latin Antonia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Antonius. The feminine equivalent of Anthony.