Abigail - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈæbəˌɡel|
Brit.
|ˈæbɪɡeɪl|
noun
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
- A female given name, used since the 16th century, and currently quite popular.
In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
- The wife of Nabal and later of David in the Old Testament.- A female given name, used since the 16th century, and currently quite popular.
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