HOW TO PRONOUNCE
esther
/ˈɛstɚ/
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What does esther mean?
proper noun
- A female given name from Persian.
- A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
- The heroine of the Book of Esther.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛstɚ/
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Then comes his wife, Esther Steady, home from the market, between whom and her husband there is a pithy dialogue.
Evangeline, who is as real a personage as Queen Esther, must have been a different woman from Madame de la Tour.
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The reader will have noticed that, in enumerating the names of the slaves who lived with my old master, Esther is mentioned.
A group of Jewish boys gave a dramatic version of the story of Joseph and his brethren and again of Queen Esther.
The achievement was due to the influence of one woman, Esther Morris, a pioneer who was as good a neighbor as she was a suffragist.