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NAOMI

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Overview

NAOMI (noun)
  The noun NAOMI has 1 sense:

1. the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testamentplay

  Familiarity information: NAOMI used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


NAOMI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Naomi; Noemi

Instance hypernyms:

mother-in-law (the mother of your spouse)


 Context examples 


This portion was rebuilt A.D. —, by Naomi Brocklehurst, of Brocklehurst Hall, in this county.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ho there! lay-brothers—Francis, Naomi, Joseph—seize him and bind his arms!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Who was Naomi Brocklehurst?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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