Josephine

[ joh-zuh-feen, -suh- ]

noun

1. Empress Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
2. a female given name: derived from Joseph.

Josephine

/ ˈdʒəʊzəˌfiːn /

noun

1. Josephine, Empress17631814FFrenchMISC: wife of Napoleon Empress, previous name Joséphine de Beauharnais; real name Marie Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie. 1763–1814, empress of France as wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (1796–1809)

Example Sentences

On the 20th floor, they encountered a bookkeeper named Josephine Harris, who had just descended 50 floors on her own.

From National Geographic Kids

Later, the 18-year-old, from Leatherhead, Surrey, and Callum Dunne, 15, from Southend, Essex, stuffed a lit firework through the letterbox of 88-year-old Josephine Smith's home, starting a fire that killed her.

From BBC

A lot of Americans tune out politics until the tail end of an election year and then "just go with the most recent thing they remember", said Abraham Josephine Riesman, a freelance journalist and author of the book Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America.

From BBC

When model Josephine Lee, known online as Princess Gollum, arrived in Studio City for a skincare brand photo shoot in November 2021, she had all her signature accessories in tow.

From Los Angeles Times

And then there’s Josephine, the seventeen-year-old wunderkind-slash-hacker whose real mission is to turn Evan into a fully-fledged human being.

From Salon