Eliza
//ɪˈlaɪzə// name
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.
""My real name's !Eliza!. I've sometimes thought she called me after Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name.""
Example
More examples"I sent a pot of cold cream to Eliza."
Etymology
Shortened from Elizabeth.
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