sandra

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von sandra im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A female given name., diminutive of Alexandra

Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name..

diminutive of Alexandra

{i} female first name

Relevante Übersetzungen

Sandra Bernhard

{i} (born 1955) American actress and comedian

Sandra Bullock

{i} (born 1965), Untied States film actress who starred in "While You Where Sleeping

Sandra Day O'Connor

a US judge who became the first woman member of the Supreme Court in 1981 (1930- ). orig. Sandra Day born March 26, 1930, El Paso, Texas, U.S. U.S. jurist. After graduating first in her law school class at Stanford University (1950) she entered private practice in Arizona. She served as an assistant state attorney general (1965-69) before being elected in 1969 to the state senate, where she became the first woman in the U.S. to hold the position of majority leader (1972-74). After serving on the superior court of Maricopa county and the state court of appeals, she was nominated in 1981 by Pres. Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first female justice in the court's history. Known for her dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions, she proved to be a moderate and pragmatic conservative who sometimes sided with the court's liberal minority on social issues (e.g., abortion rights)

Silbentrennung

San·dra

Türkische aussprache

sändrı

Aussprache

/ˈsandrə/ /ˈsændrə/

Etymologie

() A short form of Alexandra and, less often, of Cassandra.