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Laura
proper noun 
  1. (given name, female).
Translations: 
  • Dutch: Laura
  • French: Laure
  • German: Laura
    (trans-mid)
  • Italian: Laura
  • Spanish: Laura
Etymology: Latin feminine form of laurus, laurel tree. A post-classical name made famous by Petrarch's sonnets to Laura in the fourteenth century.

     

laura
noun 
  1. (Roman Catholic Church) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior - C. Kingsley
Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek lane, defile (noun), also, a kind of monastery

     
 
  

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