Susanna

[soo-zan-uh]

noun

1. a book of the Apocrypha, constituting the 13th chapter of Daniel in the Douay Bible.

2. Also Susannah. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “lily.”

Susanna

/ suːˈzænə /

noun

1. the wife of Joachim, who was condemned to death for adultery because of a false accusation, but saved by Daniel's sagacity

2. the book of the Apocrypha containing this story

Example Sentences

Nearly "every person who seeks treatment has been traumatised in some way," says Dr Susanna Galea-Singer, chair of the Faculty of Addictions at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland.

From BBC

The house had already been left by Shakespeare to his eldest daughter, Susanna, who was alive and living there with Nash and Elizabeth, her daughter.

From BBC

“Susanna inculcated the value of tradition and heritage to everyone she knew.”

From Los Angeles Times

San Francisco has been submerged by incessant rain in Susanna Kwan’s ‘Awake in the Floating City,’ and Bo has lost her sense of purpose until she cares for a woman very much her elder.

From Los Angeles Times

Susanna Daniels, from cancer charity Melanoma Focus, said she was " becoming increasingly concerned about the use of both nasal tanning sprays and tanning injections and their potential links with melanoma skin cancer".

From BBC