lydia
see also: Lydia
Noun
Lydia
Pronunciation
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see also: Lydia
Noun
- plural form of lydion
Lydia
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɪ.di.ə/
- (historical) A region of southwest Asia Minor or Persia.
- (Biblical) A woman converted by St. Paul; presumably named for ancestry or residence in Lydia.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 16:14 ↗::
- And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
- A female given name.
- 1813 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 9:
- Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
- 1990 Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, ISBN 0060163976, page 5:
- The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.
- 1813 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 9:
- pet form: Liddy
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