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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Vanessa, genus Vanessanoun

    painted beauty and red admiral

Wiktionary

  1. Vanessanoun

    A female given name originating as a coinage.

    Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.

  2. Etymology: Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.[1]

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  1. vanessa

    Vanessa can refer to two things: 1) A feminine given name of Greek origin, with the meaning "butterfly". It was a name invented in the 18th century by author Jonathan Swift for his friend Esther Vanhomrigh. 2) A genus of butterflies that includes species like the red admiral and painted lady.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vanessanoun

    any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped

  2. Etymology: [Probably from Swift's poem of Cadenus and Vanessa. See Vanessa, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.]

Wikidata

  1. Vanessa

    Vanessa is an American opera in three acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti. Barber revised the opera in 1964, reducing the four acts to the three-act version most commonly performed today.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vanessa

    va-nes′a, n. a genus of butterflies, e.g. the Vanessa atalanta or Red Admiral, Vanessa antiope or Camberwell Beauty. [Perh. intended for Phanessa—Gr. Phanēs, a mystic divinity.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vanessa in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vanessa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of vanessa in a Sentence

  1. Vanessa Oshima:

    Caroline Steer and I had been friends because we all went to the same junior high, we were just in the same circle and same classes all the time, and we just got along very well. They remained close until going to different universities. Steer stayed in New Zealand, while Vanessa Oshima relocated to Tokyo, where Caroline Steer married Caroline Steer husband, Yasu. TODDLER'S BRAIN DAMAGE REVERSED AFTER NEAR-FATAL DROWNING.

  2. Vanessa Bryant:

    And he says,' Is there anything I can do for you ?' And I said : If you can't bring my husband and baby back, please make sure no one takes photographs of them, please secure the area. And Vanessa Bryant said : I will.

  3. Caroline Steer:

    Vanessa Oshima has taught us so much about the power of friendship, and what we can achieve if we let ourselves !

  4. Elizabeth Warren:

    These credible and troubling allegations from Dr. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson make it clear that Lieutenant Governor Fairfax should resign. My heart goes out to these brave women and their families.

  5. Jose Silva:

    They asked the family to edit the video, and that was like editing Vanessa's life. It was demeaning.

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