English

Proper noun

Zenobia

1. A female given name.
   • 1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion

     "I shall always think," said Zenobia, "that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends."

   • 1946 P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, Overlook Press (2002), ISBN 1585672769, page 12:

     This Zenobia ("Nobby") Hopwood was old Worplesdon's ward, as I believe it is called. A pal of his, just before he stopped ticking over some years previously, had left him in charge of his daughter.

Related terms

• Nobby