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Definition of: Ursula
(ûr′syə·lə, -sə-, Du. 
r′s·lä)
A feminine personal name. Also Fr. Ur·sule (ür·sül′), Ger., Sw. Ur·sel (r′səl), Sp. Ur·so·la (r′·sō·lä). [<L, little she–bear]
—Ursula, Saint
A Cornish princess of the fourth or fifth century, martyred, according to legend, with eleven thousand virgins at Cologne by the Huns.
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