Definition of Bernhardt

1. Noun. French actress (1844-1923).

Exact synonyms: Henriette Rosine Bernard, Sarah Bernhardt
Generic synonyms: Actress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bernhardt

Bernard Law Montgomery
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Bernardine
Bernardines
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernays' sponge
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist
Berne
Bernese
Bernese Oberland
Bernese mountain dog
Bernfeld
Bernhard Riemann
Bernhardt
Bernhardt's disease
Bernhardt's formula
Bernhardt-Roth syndrome
Bernheim's syndrome
Bernice
Bernie
Bernini
Bernoulli
Bernoulli's law
Bernoulli's principle
Bernoulli's theorem
Bernoulli distribution
Bernoulli effect
Bernoulli trial

Literary usage of Bernhardt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"bernhardt next essayed less ambitious rôles upon humbler stages, ... bernhardt left the mimic stage to take a leading part in the patriotic work of nursing ..."

2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
"bernhardt, who, in making her many professional tours of the United States, ... bernhardt, intrinsically, does not explain that liberal ebullition of ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"bernhardt goes over much of the ground referred to by Oppenheim, but his object is rather to sum up present views on the subject of multiple neuritis than ..."

4. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"SARAH bernhardt. 1844?— 1 "There is a kind of character in thy life, That, ... bernhardt, who, in making her many professional tours of the United States, ..."

5. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker (1907)
"LXIII SARAH bernhardt WHEN Irving and Sarah bernhardt met there already was that ... The next year, 1880, Sarah bernhardt was playing for a short time in ..."

6. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"CHAPTER XVII GREAT THEATRICAL BENEFITS Unparalleled Performance Given in the bernhardt Tent in Chicago—Mighty Concourse of Stage Stars, including bernhardt, ..."

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