Matilda Definition

mə-tĭldə
noun
A feminine name: dim. Mattie, Matty, Maud, Tilda, Tilly.
Webster's New World
The pack or bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman; a swag.
American Heritage
(UK, army, historical) Either of two British infantry tanks in use during World War II, the Infantry Tank Mark I or Infantry Tank Mark II.
Wiktionary
pronoun
A female given name.
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Other Word Forms of Matilda

Noun

Singular:
Matilda
Plural:
matildas

Origin of Matilda

  • Name of medieval royalty, Latinized form of Old High German maht,meht "might" + hild "battle".

    From Wiktionary

  • From the name Matilda

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Unknown.

    From Wiktionary

Matilda Sentence Examples

  • In 1273 he was a candidate for the German crown, but was induced to support Rudolph, count of Habsburg, whose eldest daughter, Matilda, he married in this year.

  • Though on her first landing Matilda only escaped capture through the misplaced chivalry of her opponent, she soon turned the tables upon him with the help of the Church and the barons of the west.

  • It formed part of the donation of the Countess Matilda to the papacy.

  • The present parish church of St Giles in the Fields, between Shaftesbury Avenue and New Oxford Street, dates from 1734, but here was situated a leper's hospital founded by Matilda, wife of Henry I., in i ioi.

  • Leaving his aunt, Matilda, abbess of Quedlinburg, as regent of Germany, Otto, in February 99 8, led Gregory back to Rome, took the castle of St Angelo by storm and put Crescentius to death.

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