Alma
a town in SE Quebec, in SE Canada.
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “kind.”.
(in Egypt) a woman or girl who dances or sings professionally.
Contemporary Examples
Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days David Freeman December 12, 2014
In 1945 or 1946, Hitch and Alma were in New York with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, on a publicity tour.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days David Freeman December 12, 2014
Does your school or Alma mater support its basketball teams, even if they are not perennial March Madness powerhouses?
Top 25 Colleges With Diehard Fans The Daily Beast March 20, 2011
For the first time since I put my acceptance letter in the mail, I woke up this morning ashamed of my Alma mater.
How UVA Is Failing Its Women Allison McNearney November 19, 2014
During his early attempts to become a director, he met Alma Reville, an English girl just one day younger than himself.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days David Freeman December 12, 2014
Historical Examples
Alma, her nose sniffing the air, ran into the kitchen that night to find no one in the room, and the biscuits burning in the oven.
Across the Years Eleanor H. Porter
And they met several straw-hatted youths to whom Alma bowed.
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
At all times he was ready to guard and vindicate the religious character of his Alma mater.
The Real Gladstone J. Ewing Ritchie
And she said it so graciously that the tears came into Alma’s eyes.
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
Still looking at him steadily, Alma Remsen seemed to change.
The Deep Lake Mystery Carolyn Wells
fem. proper name, from Latin Alma “nourishing,” fem. of almus; from alere “to nourish” (see old).
n.
Egyptian dancing-girl, belly-dancer, 1814, perhaps from Arabic almah (fem. adjective), “learned, knowing,” from alama “to know.” Or perhaps from a Semitic root meaning “girl” (cf. Hebrew alma “a young girl, a damsel”).
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