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Eliza

Eliza

56 2.4
A woman's name often short for Elizabeth
  • proper noun
  • /ɪˈlaɪzə/
translation icon : Eliza
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Thank you, Eliza, so much and claim your space.

  • Hey, this is me, Eliza, part of your average family.

  • How could you do this to Eliza, huh?

  • I should like you to call me Eliza now if you would.

  • 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.

  • Doesn't Eliza look beautiful?

Synonyms

Bess
vsEliza
565 3.6

A woman's name often short for Elizabeth

was originally used as the short form of that long name
Lise
vsEliza
46 5.9

A woman's first name short for Elisabeth

was originally used as the short form of the more common long name spelling

Surface Forms

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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.