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Hannah

[han-uh]

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the mother of Samuel.

  2. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “grace.”



Hannah

/ ˈhænə /

noun

  1. Old Testament the woman who gave birth to Samuel (I Samuel 1–2)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Although she hails from New York City, actor and comedian Hannah Pilkes confesses that living in Los Angeles has won her over.

Hannah White, from Sutton music venue The Sound Lounge, said she received a hostile reaction when she spoke to a separate group of men with ladders, who were wearing masks and had stopped to attach a Union flag to a lamppost on the High Street on 29 August.

From BBC

“Figuring out what I want to stock and when to order it has suddenly become a lot more stressful,” Hannah Wilson, owner of the Dropped Stitch in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago, told Slate.

From Slate

Rebecca said there "wasn't anything" her two-year-old daughter Hannah, who has cerebral palsy and is non-mobile, non-verbal and reliant on a nasal cannula, could use.

From BBC

"I was weeing on the beach," says a third contestant, 29-year-old Hannah.

From BBC

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