emilia
/əmˈiliə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.15 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A historical region of Italy, approximately coterminous with modern Emilia-Romagna.
Example Sentences
- "I don't hold grudges to anyone but Emilia."
- ""Emily" was preserved and erased, reduced to the sexless cypher "E.", and then came to denote not the shared and ordinary name "Emily" but a new, exotic, self-begotten "Emilia". No longer masculine Francis but feminine-with-a-difference Emilia, vaguely Latin or Italian or French but in any case foreign, not domestic; […]"