Eliza
- proper noun
- /ɪˈlaɪzə/
- In the play, Eliza Doolittle transforms from a flower girl to a lady.
- Eliza Lestrange
So we have a newspaper article that was kind of the last billing of your third great grandmother, who was named Eliza Troutner Lane Kinlock.
- So we have a newspaper article that was kind of the last billing of your third great grandmother, who was named Eliza Troutner Lane Kinlock.
- By partnering with rising filmmaker Eliza Mcnit to take audiences behind the scenes of her upcoming VR film Pale Blue dot.
- I'm just grateful that my daughter Eliza was taken to something at such a young age in which she's talented at because I never had that when I was a kid.
- Thank you, Eliza, so much and claim your space.
Examples
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Rather than add to his turmoil, Eliza chose to humor him instead.
Fiction book (1994) -
But his greatest strength today is his wife, Eliza New, who is a professor of English here at the university.
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Thank you, Eliza, so much and claim your space.
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Hey, this is me, Eliza, part of your average family.
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How could you do this to Eliza, huh?
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I should like you to call me Eliza now if you would.
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With a heavy heart, Eliza listened to Will Gordon explain that nothing had changed.
Fiction book (1994) -
After three years of practice, Eliza had mastered the skill of hiding her feelings.
Fiction book (1994) -
I spoke with Eliza Ramirez, a freshman who said she feels alienated from her own home room.
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Doesn't Eliza look beautiful?
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Etymology
The name Eliza began as a short form of Elizabeth. Elizabeth comes from the Hebrew name Elisheva, which means 'my God is an oath' or 'God is abundance', so Eliza is a familiar, shorter form of that older name.