The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
Esther, Book of Esther
(noun) an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre
Esther
(noun) (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.