Isadore

[ iz-uh-dawr, -dohr ]

noun

1. a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”

Example Sentences

Hutt, 65, served as a senior advisor to then-Assemblymember Isadore Hall III and as California state director for then-Sen.

From Los Angeles Times

She was born in 1936 in Los Angeles to Isadore “Dore” Schary, a playwright and screenwriter, and Miriam Svet, a painter.

From Los Angeles Times

It also features outsider figures, like Ronald Vaughan, a friend of Bingenheimer’s who has self-released music as “Isadore Ivy, Spaceman at Large.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the mid-1950s, when enclosed shopping malls were still a novelty, Mr. Lerner got into the business through Isadore M. Gudelsky, a former sand-and-gravel salesman who built up considerable real estate holdings in the Washington suburbs.

From Washington Post

No moment in the film seems more redolent of our current demagogue's maga rallies than the one in which a protester scrambles onto the stage — he was Isadore Greenbaum, a twenty-six-year-old plumber's helper from Brooklyn — and is promptly tackled and pummeled by Kuhn supporters, amid appreciative laughter and hooting from the crowd.

From Salon