agatha

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A female given name

Agatha was as cloddish as her name - plain and thick, pasty-faced.

{i} female first name
Used since the Middle Ages, but never popular

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Agatha Christie
a British writer who wrote many popular novels about murders and the detectives who try to find out who did them. Her most famous characters are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, and two of her best-known books are Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (1890-1976)
Agatha Christie
{i} (1891-1976) English writer, author of many detective and murder/mystery novels
Dame Agatha Christie
born Sept. 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, Eng. died Jan. 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire British detective novelist and playwright. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian detective who would appear in about 25 novels. The elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple, her other principal detective figure, first appeared in Murder at the Vicarage (1930). Most of her approximately 75 novels, such as Murder on the Orient Express (1933; film, 1978), were best-sellers; translated into 100 languages, they have sold more than 100 million copies. Her plays include The Mousetrap (1952), which set a world record for longest continuous run, and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film, 1958). She was married to the eminent archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan (1904-78)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
born Sept. 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, Eng. died Jan. 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire British detective novelist and playwright. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian detective who would appear in about 25 novels. The elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple, her other principal detective figure, first appeared in Murder at the Vicarage (1930). Most of her approximately 75 novels, such as Murder on the Orient Express (1933; film, 1978), were best-sellers; translated into 100 languages, they have sold more than 100 million copies. Her plays include The Mousetrap (1952), which set a world record for longest continuous run, and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film, 1958). She was married to the eminent archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan (1904-78)
Saint Agatha
flourished 3rd century AD?, Sicily; feast day February 5 Legendary Christian martyr. Born in Palermo or Catania, she resisted the advances of a Roman prefect sent to govern Sicily. After brutal torture she was sent to the stake, but as the fire was lit a great earthquake occurred, and the crowd demanded her release. She was led away to prison, where she died. Though she appears in lists of martyrs as early as the 6th century, the legend may be unfounded
agatha

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    Ag·a·tha

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    ägıthı

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    /ˈagəᴛʜə/ /ˈæɡəθə/

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    () From Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή (Agathē) from ἀγαθός (agathos, “good”).