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sophia
/soʊˈfi.ə/
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What does sophia mean?
proper noun
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- An aeon (a form of divine being) in the Gnostic tradition.
- A town in West Virginia, United States; named for early resident Sophia McGinnis.
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noun
- (archaic, historical) Archaic spelling of Safawi.
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IPA pronunciation
/soʊˈfi.ə/
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Miss Sophia she turned pale, but the color come back when she found the man warn’t hurt.
“Owing to the present state of things Sophia Danílovna has gone to the Torzhók estate with the children, your excellency.”
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And within the Church of Saint Sophia, an emperor sometime would have buried the body of his father, when he was dead.
She will not make so good a Queen as our friend Sophia, but will like better, I suppose, to make a widow.
He escaped the scaffold, for that time, by getting away, in the disguise of a page, in the train of his daughter, Lady Sophia Lindsay.