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 Translation for 'Christen' from English to Norwegian
VERB   to christen | christened | christened
christening | christens
SYNO to baptise | to baptize | to christen
å døpeto christen
navn
Christen {m}
Christen
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Translation for 'Christen' from English to Norwegian

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to christen
å døpe

Christen
Christen {m}navn
Usage Examples English
  • During 1971 Wellworthy welcomed an Ex-Pompey XI to christen their newly installed floodlights in a game that drew 600 spectators to watch the sharing of eight goals.
  • In the 1980s, televangelist and PTL Club founder Jim Bakker (Spacey) and his wife Tammy (Peters) decide to expand their PTL television ministry to include a village resort with an amusement park, which they christen Heritage USA.
  • Colquitt was said to be able to make a stump speech, try a court case and plead another at the bar, christen a child, preach a sermon, and marry a couple - all before dinner.
  • The couple move to Raleigh, North Carolina, but return to Mayberry at a later date on "Mayberry R.F.D." to christen their newborn son, Andrew Samuel Taylor.
  • On January 25, 1990, the Hartford men's basketball team officially opened what was originally known as the Sports Center with the largest crowd in the arena's history as 4,161 attendees watched the Hawks christen their new arena with a 63–61 win over Siena.

  • Joy Hancock, USNR, widow of Lieutenant Commander Hancock, and the first Wave officer to christen a U.S.
  • In December 2014, the Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Company entered into a ten-year agreement with the Indiana State Fair Commission to re-christen the arena as the Indiana Farmers Coliseum.
  • This led "The Wrap" to christen him "the Gordon Ramsay of fast food".
  • To christen is to perform the religious act of baptism.
  • In December 1793 he was the minister called to Alloway by Robert Burns to christen his illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth Riddell, a task which most ministers resisted.

  • Ceremonies took place at the Turning Basin, where lame duck Governor Oscar Colquitt and other Texas dignitaries watched the mayor's daughter christen the newly dredged channel with rose pedals.
  • As minister for the area covering Glamis Castle his parishioners included members of the Bowes-Lyon family including the Queen Mother and her brother Fergus Bowes-Lyon though circumstances meant that he did not christen either.
  • Caersws is home to current and past champions of a number of sporting disciplines, leading some to christen it the "Sporting Capital of Wales".
  • Jennings was selected to christen the boat by drawing her name from a hat containing the names of the three.
  • "Newport" was launched at 4:00 p.m. of Wednesday, May 20, 1908. Julia Jacobson, wife of one of the owners, spoke the words "I christen thee Newport" as she broke a bottle of wine over the bows.

  • In 2012, Czech media reported that Agnieszka Holland had backed out of her original intention to christen Georgiev's social-critical prose "Večeře u spisovatelky" ("Dinner with the Authoress").
  • Christiane is a given name, a form of the Latin "Christiana", feminine form of "Christianuis" (see Christian), or a Latinized form of Middle English "Christin" 'Christian' (Old English "christen", from Latin).
  • The Disappearance: on the birth of the Bride and Bridegroom's daughter, the husband leaves to fetch the Priest who will christen her, but on the way is lured into a brightly lit hillside - the "Land of the Young".
  • Love provided the inaugural performance to christen the opening of the Clermont Performing Arts Center in Clermont, Florida on September 26, 2015.
  • On 22 September 1956 Leming was invited to christen the ship "Mayflower II", a replica of the Pilgrim ship, that was built at Brixham, Devon.

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    Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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