Miranda Definition

mə-răndə
noun
A satellite of Uranus.
American Heritage
A feminine name: dim. Mandy.
Webster's New World
adjective
Designating or of the legal rights of an arrested person (as that of remaining silent or of being represented by counsel) and the required notification of such a person of those rights.
Webster's New World

Origin of Miranda

  • After Ernesto A. Miranda (1940?–1976), petitioner in the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

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

  • After Miranda , daughter of the magician Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

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

Miranda Sentence Examples

  • But Miranda's desire - that all the South American colonies should form a federal republic - awoke the selfishness of provincial administrations, and the cause was believed to be hateful to heaven owing to a great earthquake on the 26th of March 1812.

  • There are allusions to Miranda's early life in nearly all memoirs of the time, but they are not generally very accurate.

  • He also wrote on Spanish America, China, General Miranda, the East India Company, and the Liberty of the Press.

  • Bernardim Ribeiro, Christovam Falcao, Gil Vicente, and SA de Miranda, who represent the transition between the Spanish school of the i 5th and the Italian school of the 16th century, the members of which are called Os Quinhentistas.

  • The return of SA de Miranda from Italy operated to transform the drama as well as lyric poetry.

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Words Starting With

MMIMIR

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ADANDA

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