Sarah vs Sharon - What's the difference?
sarah | sharon |
Wife of patriarch Abraham, mother of Isaac.
* 1611 — 17:15
* 1988 Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye : page 15:
A plain in Israel.
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derived from the biblical place name.
* 1927 , Elmer Gantry , Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 183:
* 2001 , Working With Spoken Discourse , SAGE, ISBN 0761957731, page 157:
(UK derogatory slang ) A working-class female.
Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and Canada named after the biblical place.
As a proper noun sarah
is wife of patriarch abraham, mother of isaac.As a noun sharon is
persimmon.sarah
English
(wikipedia Sarah)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
- I also have two daughters, by now grown up. Their names are Sarah and Anne, good sensible names. - - - I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children, because look what happened to Cordelia.
Synonyms
* (wife of Abraham): SaraiAnagrams
* ----sharon
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I am the rose of Sharon , and the lily of the valleys.
- My name is Katie Jonas. I was born in Utica. My dad worked on a brickyard. I picked out the name Sharon Falconer while I was a stenographer.
- The group suggested a number of reasons why a girl might not fit in to their community - for instance, if she wore white socks and had a name like 'Sharon' .