Elizabeth

Proper noun

1. A female given name from Hebrew, popular since the 16th century.
   • Most happy letters! framed by skilful trade, / With which that happy name was first designed, - - - / Ye three Elizabeths! for ever live, / That three such graces did unto me give. - 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti,...
   • "Because if you say it over and over to yourself, darling, it really is a quite strange-sounding name, isn't it? It's just as strange as any other from the Old Testament, Mehetabel or Hepsibah or Shulamith, and any of...
   • No one ever called Elizabeth Tannenbaum stunning, but most men found her attractive. Hardly anyone called her Elizabeth, either. An "Elizabeth" was regal, cool, an eyecatching beauty. A "Betsy" was pleasant to look at,...
2. A surname originating as a matronymic.
3. A suburb of Adelaide, Australia; named for Elizabeth II.
4. A locale in the United States.

   1. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.

   2. A town in Colorado; named for a family member of John Evans, 2nd Governor of the Territory of Colorado.

   3. An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Georgia senator Joseph E. Brown.

   4. A village in Illinois; said to be named for three early settlers all named Elizabeth.

   5. A town in Indiana; named for Elizabeth Lemmon Zenor, daughter-in-law of early landowner Jacob Zenor.

   6. A village in Allen Parish, Louisiana.

   7. A city in Minnesota; named for early settler Elizabeth Niggler.

   8. A city, the county seat of Union County, New Jersey; named for Elizabeth de Carteret, wife of George Carteret, one of two original Lords Proprietor of the Colony New Jersey.

   9. A borough in Pennsylvania; named for early settler Elizabeth Mackay Bayard.

   10. A town, the county seat of Wirt County, West Virginia; named for early settler Elizabeth Woodyard Beauchamp.

5. Places in the Philippines:

   1. A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.

   2. A barangay of Marcos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, named after Elizabeth Marcos.

   3. A barangay of the municipality of Leyte, province of Leyte, Philippines.