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emily

/ˈɛm.ə.li/

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What does emily mean?

phrase

  1. Acronym of early money is like yeast, i.e. it "raises dough", or makes more money.

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Latin.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɛm.ə.li/

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But one other servant accompanied the travellers—Lady Montbarry’s maid, rather a silent, unsociable woman, so far as Emily had heard.
Wilkie CollinsThe Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern VeniceProject Gutenberg ebook #170
So Emily was bought and actually taken to a children's outfitter's shop and measured for a wardrobe as grand as Sara's own.
Frances Hodgson BurnettA Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first timeProject Gutenberg ebook #146
More book examples (3)
I did not see little Emily in that interval, but they told me she was to be quietly married in a fortnight.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
Therefore, both Emily and Micawber are shipped off to a vague colony where changes come over them with no conceivable cause, except the climate.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonWhat's Wrong with the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #1717
“Well, well, Emily, I don’t pretend to interfere with your religious notions; only they seem extremely unfitted for people in that condition.”
Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinProject Gutenberg ebook #203