Elena

[ el-uh-nuh, uh-ley-nuh; Italian e-le-nah ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Helen.

Example Sentences

A roving, sumptuous narrative entrenched in the labyrinthine relationships of a small southern Italian town, “My Brilliant Friend” follows Lila and Elena, schoolgirls growing up in postwar Naples.

From Los Angeles Times

Elena holds her headstrong, intellectually gifted friend Lila in reverent admiration, but the girls’ paths diverge when Lila, who cannot afford to continue her education, marries an abusive man, while Elena goes to university and becomes a writer.

From Los Angeles Times

State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Los Angeles Democrat, said trust between state and local government and immigrant communities in California has taken “decades and decades” to build, and local officials are going to do everything they can to prevent the administration from undermining it.

From Los Angeles Times

As Elena, a young Dominican housekeeper who falls in with Coop in his misadventures, Aimee Carrero provides needed class and cultural variation.

From Los Angeles Times

"Even the majority today agrees, and the Federal Government now admits, that individuals subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to adequate notice and judicial review before they can be removed. That should have been the end of the matter," she wrote in a dissent joined by Justices Elena Kagan, Kentanji Brown Jackson and, in part, Amy Coney Barrett.

From Salon